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Old 06-08-2014, 12:27 PM  
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Originally Posted by Relentless View Post
As another mind-fuck, ask yourself what would happen if Bill Gates decided to go gamble at a Casino...? Let's say he gambled a few billion dollars and won... he would keep the money. Now let's assume he gambled a few billion dollars and lost. Nothing prevents him from buying the casino itself to recoup that loss.
Not really. Lets say casino is valued at $X.
Gates comes in and loses $1.000.000.000.
Value of casino just went up to $X+$1.000.000.000

So he would pay extra of what he lost in order to "recoup" it.
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