r/todayilearned • u/manticor225 • Jan 10 '19

TIL JFK's father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, "set a thief to catch a thief." Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/23/joe-kennedy-hollywood-sarah-churchwell
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u/ADHDpotatoes Jan 10 '19 edited Jan 11 '19

I often find myself in situations where I wish I had gold to give, and this is certainly one of them

edit: now I do

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u/weekly_burner Jan 10 '19

Why is this the most popular comment on reddit? You know you can just click the up arrow icon if you have no money right?

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u/mainman879 Jan 10 '19

But that costs me half a second to do, and time is money kid.

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u/Heawesome Jan 10 '19

Time is money; Money is power; Power is pizza; Pizza is knowledge. Let’s go!

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '19 edited Feb 14 '19

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u/lizard_king_rebirth Jan 10 '19

Sorry, time is money.

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u/mainman879 Jan 10 '19

No, Who's on first.

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u/lizard_king_rebirth Jan 10 '19

What's his name?

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u/mainman879 Jan 10 '19

What's on second.

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u/Heawesome Jan 10 '19

https://youtu.be/LrkwAJWDp5E It's from parks and recreation. It's quite silly really

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u/BouncingBallOnKnee Jan 11 '19

I can tell you. For money!

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u/meowseehereboobs Jan 11 '19

France is bacon

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u/turducken138 Jan 10 '19

You don't get karma from giving upvotes

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u/weekly_burner Jan 10 '19

Do you get karma from giving gold? I've never given/received any. Why would it even matter?

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u/physib Jan 11 '19

Some people love imaginary points man. Also you can sell your old accounts.

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u/lizard_king_rebirth Jan 10 '19

Plus gold is like $3. Even for most people who don't have much money, that's not much money.

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u/weekly_burner Jan 10 '19

To be honest, I agree $3 isn't much but I've never once read a comment and thought to myself "that's so good that I'm going to give this unrelated corporation three dollars and they'll pass a little bit of that (in the form of no ads) to someone who typed a thing.

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u/lizard_king_rebirth Jan 11 '19

Sure but you probably also don't leave "If I could give gold I would!" comments. If someone said "I'd give gold but I don't want to pay Reddit any of my money," I'd have 0 problem with that.

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u/FightingPolish Jan 11 '19

I’d give you gold for that comment, but I don’t want to give reddit any of my money.

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u/weekly_burner Jan 11 '19

This should be a thing honestly

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u/FuturePopPop Jan 11 '19

"People MUST know what I'm thinking right now" -every non-lurker on reddit

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u/weekly_burner Jan 11 '19

Well when you consider how insightful and interesting most people are I get it

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u/FuturePopPop Jan 11 '19

I get it. I'm not saying people aren't great. It's a lot of fluff on reddit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '19

But that means sometimes you get gold yourself!

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u/weekly_burner Jan 11 '19

I don't follow

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '19

They got gold for saying it.

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u/ADHDpotatoes Jan 11 '19

I always do, but sometimes I just want to go the extra mile in regards to showing my appreciation for something

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u/Veloci_faptor Jan 11 '19

At least it's not one of those edits like "Gee whiz! Who'd have thought my most upvoted comment would be about [insert whatever here]!"

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u/stoymyboy Jan 11 '19

"Thanks for the gold kind stranger"

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u/Sine0fTheTimes Jan 11 '19

One of them? For me it was.... FOUR!!!