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Having fun with ChatGPT, and trying to improve on Thomas Sowell

26 Sep 2023

One of Thomas Sowell’s best quotes is ““I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” Now it’s hard to improve on anything Thomas Sowell has written, but I asked ChapGPT to help this morning. I asked it, “Please try to rewrite the following sentence in ten different ways profoundly: No corporate greed can ever match the avarice of the politician. Here are the answers. Let me know which you like best.

  1. No business’s thirst for profit can parallel a politician’s insatiable hunger for gain.
  2. The avaricious tendencies of businesses pale in comparison to the voracity of a politician.
  3. The corporate world’s greediness is but a shadow compared to the rapaciousness of political ambition.
  4. A company’s pursuit of riches never truly rivals the politician’s lust for power and wealth.
  5. While corporations may chase profit, it’s the politician whose greed knows no bounds.
  6. The corporate quest for wealth seems trivial when measured against a politician’s boundless avarice.
  7. No matter how hungry companies are for gain, politicians often display an even more voracious appetite.
  8. Greed in the business realm can be great, but the ambition of a politician often surpasses it in depth.
  9. The world of politics often reveals avarice that eclipses even the most profit-driven corporate desires.
  10. Companies may crave riches, but politicians can exhibit a yearning that is deeper and more consuming.

So which do you like best? How ’bout sharing with us your own version, without ChatGPT?