Timeline for Search for something difficult to count/estimate
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| Sep 27, 2019 at 13:35 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | This basically boils down to a feudal pyramid scheme... | |
| Sep 27, 2019 at 10:54 | comment | added | Adrian Colomitchi | Letting the multiplication factor aside, this reminds me of the fractional reserve banking | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 15:43 | comment | added | mcRobusta | Counter-intuitive is the name of the game. I'm not sayingggg there's a parallel to be drawn with the real world, buuuuut... | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 15:22 | comment | added | cegfault | upvote from me. Very creative! I think this also works because it's counter-intuitive. Until you sit down and do the calculations, there's no way you'd estimate the result. Also, as an aside, I feel like this may be a type of fallacy even nowadays in stock markets, taxation strategies, or other financial institutions across the known world, especially in developing countries | |
| Sep 26, 2019 at 12:10 | history | answered | mcRobusta | CC BY-SA 4.0 |