- Admiring someone for external things: There is no surer mark of a sucker than to admire a man for what he has rather than for what he is. The sucker sees an heir and marvels at his fortune, as if building wealth were, every time, some proof of character. Sucker’s ask for a picture when they see high agency people because they know they will never be one of them, that being the closest they will be to greatness. Sucker’s are intimidated by the wealth and beauty of others. Oh, and sucker’s care (a huge lot) about someone’s position rather than someone’s actions. I’ll never forget that Bernie Madoff was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange.
- Reading the News: Newspapers are frequented by Sucker’s. Suckers don’t read to understand, they read to be informed, by which they mean to be filled, daily, with opinions not their own. Wrong ideas told everyday alter the perception of reality, not reality itself, but Sucker’s don’t care about reality anyway.
- Suckers price premium: Although we all by nature crave the need to belonging and status, suckers fall into the ‘price-premium’ trap more often than high agency people. Luxury products only confirm this. You can buy a bottle of water at $0.30 in your neighborhood’s grocery store, however, suckers prefer to buy their bottle of water at fancy stores at 5x that price. This is all because of status; suckers think people are always thinking on them therefore they want to be seen with the most expensive products, not knowing that the only way people think on them is by laughing at them for being a sucker. Sometimes, a wealthy sucker. The problem is not that you want better things, actually is normal and highh agency’ish to want the best things, the problem with this situation is that the water (raw material) is the exact same in the 30 cent product as in the $5USD one; the product was manufactured in the same place, but it was labeled with a different logo and slogan, but again, the factory was actually perhaps in the same place. If you are a smart capitalist you can take advantage of this. If you are, anyhow, smart, dont fall in the suckers price premium trap. Anyway nobody cares that you buy lux products because nobody is thinking on you, and if they were, believe me they would think you are an idiot and they would not admire you, at least not the people you want to be admired from. Of course, you will get attention and admiration, but it will come from another sucker. Funny, but being a sucker, is expensive.
- Complexity: it’s very funny how you can spot a sucker by watching how much complexity they employ in everything they do. They use complex terms to appear more intelligent, not knowing that actually the wise ones are the simplest ones. They love taking the longer journey to the same destination. They are easily fooled by others talking their same language, the “sucker’s” one. Life is hard, don’t be a sucker and make it harder.