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Sounds like survivorship bias. All those events had an impact on someone. They destroyed many lives and set back countless others. It can happen to you, unles
by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Sounds like survivorship bias.
All those events had an impact on someone. They destroyed many lives and set back countless others.
It can happen to you, unless you continue your lucky streak or your continued survival was/is due to wealth.
- Aloha 3y agoI mean, maybe? If the weatherman is consistently wrong, is it me who is experiencing different weather wrong, or the guy who made the prediction in the first place?
- CapstanRoller 3y ago"Huh? What flooding?" asks the man comfortably lounging on a yacht, as millions of regular folks get swept away by the rushing water.
- Aloha 3y agoI've been the guy swept away, repeatedly. In the end the next time the billionaires blow the thing up, they'll get a bailout and I'll get a haircut, so I might as well get my slice of the pie now. For all the crowing, the implosion from consumer debt has never come, I suspect part of why debt keeps rising is harder to obtain bankruptcy.