Film Fodder on Steven Soderbergh and the projected Ocean's 13:
..."Do you make these films just to make money to fund your arty stuff?" And he gives the typical answer that these films are a fun diversion where he gets to do things he doesn't get to do in his other projects. Which I buy, but I kinda wish Soderbergh was like a modern day Thales.
Thales was a Greek philosopher who was given a bunch a crap for being a philosopher because there was no money in it. So he used philosophy to corner the market in olive presses. Then he made a mint on olive presses because there was a bring olive crop the next year.
Eric Rasmusen seems to be an economist who discusses it...The story comes from Aristotle (Politics, 1.1259a).
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