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What's the turkey supposed to do? It can either starve itself now or die with a full stomach later.

• epicureanideal 4y ago
  There are some limitations to the metaphor but I think it illustrates the point.
  • chii 4y ago
    it doesnt illustrate anything, because the turkey situation assumes that there's a higher power controlling the stock market.
    • epicureanideal 4y ago
      I don’t think that interpretation of the metaphor is intended. Just that something good can happen many times and be followed unexpectedly and suddenly by something bad.
      • chii 4y ago
        And that's why i said the analogy is not illustrative of anything - because you dont know the future at all, and there's no precedent for that bad future. You don't prepare for such a future at the cost of the current time. If you switched the turkey to a pet cat, would the analogy still make sense?