Shoeshine boy

People who are not actively gathering information.

• Often the information that comes to this person is bad information
  • Is it an exaggeration to go so far as to say that
• Do not spread information unless the spread of that information would be beneficial to person X who has the information.
  • Derived from this
    • Information that is spread is not beneficial to the receiver, but information that is beneficial to the sender to spread
    • When you add the “buy and sell” or “zero-sum” factor here, you derive “information spread is bad information”.

The original story of “The Shoeshine Boy.”

• You can find it by searching.

• An episode, supposedly made up, by Joseph P. Kennedy (father of U.S. President John F. Kennedy).

• https://togetter.com/li/1676107

• https://aibashiro.jp/contents/cr00138/

• Ignorant sucker

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