Social games depend on a group of people maintainting interest in the product for extended periods of time - something that is very hard to sustain.

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"We had a lot of success with the open-heart surgery and saw there was a lot of interest in seeing what goes into something that's an everyday thing for some people, " Camarata says.

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How do we know if something is good for the whole country or merely the projection of our self-interest onto everybody else?

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Ultimately, the only way out of this looming crisis lies with the boomer gentry doing something totally out of character: getting past their self-interest and self-love for the good of the next generation.

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How can you own something which is naturally occurring, and protect it for your own commercial interest, goes one side of the argument?

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Something has been holding interest rates near zero for the past 17 months, but it has not been the creation of new money by the Fed.

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