Conspiracy theories are fun and they tend to come out in droves around this time of year. For fun I try to one-up the other person’s crazy. e.g. “The moon landing didn’t happen.” “Oh, you believe there’s a moon?”
Here’s the thing, not all conspiracy theories are wrong, and not all are right. Applying Hanlon’s Razor is important “”Don’t attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance.” The question is how do you approach all subjects with a healthy level of scepticism against whatever the subject matter is to sus out the underlying incentives and corresponding actions to that.
Sometimes it’s bad actions, and sometimes the world around us is simply it’s own treatise of what we’ve asked for as a collective of people in a market. I mentioned to someone earlier today that Coca Cola only has 39 grams of sugar. The reason they don’t go higher or lower is because they found out in testing that they sold less on both the over and under. 39 Grams isn’t an evil corp putting too much sugar in so much as it’s what everyone was asking for through the nature of a market.
This leads you to the question of what have you been asking for? Many drips fill a bucket. When you look at the world around you, where are you going with the market and shouldn’t? Where should you be the first drip? Where are you ok with what you’re living with?
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