1. Consider “metals”. The fact that there is an industry in which deposits are discovered and mines are created to extract these resources, is not a secret.
2. But if you find a gold deposit, you should buy the land in order to create a mine there, or sell it at a higher price, rather than telling the current owner of the land.
3. People in a business which uses metals, miners, and shipping companies, may have something to gain by there being more mines. They may have advice on how to a) find deposits, or b) setup mines, or even c) tell you where some deposits are. (People who know their land has a deposit may advertise this fact, and seek a buyer that will pay the higher price in order to build a mine there.)
4. But while people who make and run mines might tell you how to a or b, they are unlikely to tell you c. (Unless there are a lot of such deposits, perhaps distant from their mines, or there are a few mines, and mine owners wanting to trade investments in one mine for investments in more mines (which don’t exist yet) in order to reduce their risk.)
So the article says:
1. There are hundred dollar bills lying on the street.
2. Pick them up.
3. ???
4. Don’t tell other people—see 2. (Unless you are provably rich from this method, and have moved on to serve the role of 3 - being paid to help people figure out where to find, and how to pick up, the hundred dollar bills lying on the street.)
But if you find a gold deposit, you should buy the land in order to create a mine there, or sell it at a higher price, rather than telling the current owner of the land.
Should you? That really depends on your goals and code of ethics.
“Should” in the sense that you can* “gain” something by doing so. (Perhaps the OP should have been more clear about this, or “should” shouldn’t be used.)
*It was intended as a metaphor, which implicitly assumed that there are ‘dollar bills lying on the ground that you can pickup’.
I think the idea is like:
1. Consider “metals”. The fact that there is an industry in which deposits are discovered and mines are created to extract these resources, is not a secret.
2. But if you find a gold deposit, you should buy the land in order to create a mine there, or sell it at a higher price, rather than telling the current owner of the land.
3. People in a business which uses metals, miners, and shipping companies, may have something to gain by there being more mines. They may have advice on how to a) find deposits, or b) setup mines, or even c) tell you where some deposits are. (People who know their land has a deposit may advertise this fact, and seek a buyer that will pay the higher price in order to build a mine there.)
4. But while people who make and run mines might tell you how to a or b, they are unlikely to tell you c. (Unless there are a lot of such deposits, perhaps distant from their mines, or there are a few mines, and mine owners wanting to trade investments in one mine for investments in more mines (which don’t exist yet) in order to reduce their risk.)
So the article says:
1. There are hundred dollar bills lying on the street.
2. Pick them up.
3. ???
4. Don’t tell other people—see 2. (Unless you are provably rich from this method, and have moved on to serve the role of 3 - being paid to help people figure out where to find, and how to pick up, the hundred dollar bills lying on the street.)
Should you? That really depends on your goals and code of ethics.
“Should” in the sense that you can* “gain” something by doing so. (Perhaps the OP should have been more clear about this, or “should” shouldn’t be used.)
*It was intended as a metaphor, which implicitly assumed that there are ‘dollar bills lying on the ground that you can pickup’.