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> Because sometimes, dishonest people do win.

Let me fix this for you… Because always, dishonest people do win.

Good read and it would make a good short film :-)

This is needlessly negative. It’s clear that dishonest people do not always win. Disproving such a claim requires finding only one case of a successful prosecution for fraud.

Disproving “winners are always dishonest” would be a bit trickier! (Mainly because nailing a definition of “dishonest” is just too hard)

The only useful definition is “breaks the rules of the game”. Using this definition one honest victory in a perfect information game disproves the assertion.

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