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Originally Posted by
redietz
A person won a bracelet. That's a demonstration of skill, although there are arguments about how high a level of skill. Anyway, winning the bracelet is a demonstration of skill. You can't take that away from him. And some people respect skill more than cash in the bank.
There is no question that Stu Unger had great skill ... at poker.
But poker isn't the game we all play here now, is it?
I'm talking about the biggest game of all: life.
We are a capitalist society, and the objective measure of someone's success is how much money they've earned ... and managed to hang on to.
The sad thing is that degenerate gamblers like Unger seems to have been are boom and bust, which is a far from satisfactory way to live; how can you provide a good, stable life for your family that way, let alone a good life for yourself, when your income / assets have such wide swings?
There are other measures of success, the key one being how your family and acquaintances think of you, or what "good things" you've done for the community, but at the end of the day "Money talks; bullshit walks."