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First, even Rich Dad Poor Dad gets an excessive amount of snobbish criticism. It's a book selling business. But, there's nothing really wrong with that. Either it's fluff and entertainment and no worse than a book about ice skating. Or, it's a self help book about money that is simple and written for an audience that has never thought about investing.

The main message is fairly basic. Spending money and effort on things like investment property is the way to accumulate wealth. He sprinkled in a healthy dose of self help woo and nonsense, but no more than life hacking, dieting, fitness or any other self help best seller type book.

Second (and far more importantly), Patio11 is about 12 rungs above any of that. His level of transparency and mystery-free writing is almost unheard of. This kind of "If you're so awesome why don't you.." criticism is such a pity. It can and does deter people from sharing (I know it would deter me).

You have the full story available to you. The history of this site/business. The stuff that it led to. The financials. The effort required. The eventual sell price. An underhanded comment implying self serving dishonesty is so unjustified and unfair, nevermind uncharitable. It's a cheap shot and it's depressing.



yep.. we need to support people when they have been transparent as patio11 has been...

I would say, even at lesser levels of transparency we need to encourage such people rather than tearing them a new one.




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