On Jul 29, 1:09 am, Bret Cahill > wrote:
> > the local real estate market is suffering with foreclosures and
> > unsolds
>
> Then help your fellow [ex]westerner as well as yourself. Buy some
> property.
>
> Global warming scientists more or less have figured out the Colorado
> is a _former_ river.
>
> There's no institutional racism out west so we'll all vote Democrat
> when we move back east.
>
> Bret Cahill

buy low/sell high

buying when most are selling is certainly an intelligent, shrewd,
vulturistic (if a word) concept, despite that liberal-humanist good
deed rationale you imply too

milton friedman, ayn rand etal: economic man acts primarily in his
perceived rational self-interest

true enough, but then how do ya explain altruism, religious
inhibitions, secular humanistic hang-ups ?

conclusion

"culture norms repress selfish (and rational, self-interested)
instincts," robert a. cohen, 2007