Let me tell you an old Jewish anecdote from Odesa (Ukrainian city with a significant Jewish population; russians hit a residential building there using a missile strike today, a few people died, 1 kid among them).
- Moisha, what’s the price of this meat?
- Abraham, it is 300 UAH/kilogram.
- But your neighbor is selling at 200 UAH/kg. Why yours is so expensive?
- Why don’t you buy there then?
- He doesn’t have it anymore.
- Well, when I don’t have meat, I sell it at 100 UAH/kg.
So, the price can be any when you don’t have a free market. In USSR, the official exchange rate was 0,7 rouble per dollar. Black market was 2-3 (might differ, depending on the year, of course).
Recently I have seen photo with X-rates in moscow: USD buying at 70, selling at 300 EUR buying at 80, selling at 100 Looks silly, right? Everyone knows EUR costs more than USD. The reason is the same as in the anecdote above.
> This is why reading actual books in full might now be more valuable than it ever has been: Only if you’ve seen every word will you discover insights and links an AI would never include in its average-driven summary.
Is summarizing by a human much different? Let's check if the author has a consistent stance on reading every word.
https://nik.art/books/
> The 4 Minute Millionaire: 44 Lessons to Rethink Money, Invest Wisely, and Grow Wealthy in 4 Minutes a Day > This book compiles 44 lessons from some 20 of history’s best books about money, finance, and investing. Each lesson can be read in about 4 minutes and comes with a short action item.
Hmmmm