The appropriate analogy would be people who get monetary reward by writing a letter to themselves, which reads like it came from the Lottery and tells them they have won the biggest payout in the history of the world. Then they mail the letter to themselves, receive it, open it, jump for joy, and go around telling everyone they can find that they are rich. And they believe it.
We tend not to invite those sorts of people to dinner parties.
Ah, not quite, no.
The appropriate analogy would be people who get monetary reward by writing a letter to themselves, which reads like it came from the Lottery and tells them they have won the biggest payout in the history of the world. Then they mail the letter to themselves, receive it, open it, jump for joy, and go around telling everyone they can find that they are rich. And they believe it.
We tend not to invite those sorts of people to dinner parties.