Re: How to make money fast (in science fiction)

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:34:02 -0600, "John Smith" <noemail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:

> To make money fast, for a super genius:
> 
> Here are a bunch of ways to make many thousands of dollars -
> possibly into the millions (just offhand).
> 
> ID theft - should be laughably easy.
> 
> Con artist - unlimited numbers of old people he could scam
> over the phone
> 
> Counterfeiting - should be able to make fake money that
> could not be traced or found.
> 
> Electronic theft - no doubt could sneak into huge cor****ations
> and bleed off some money in an untraceable manner.

All of these require excellent human skills.  Do you think that a
human has better chimpanzee skills than a chimpanzee?

His human skills will be extremely bad - humans will be somewhat alien
to him, and he somewhat alien to humans.


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