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Old 09-24-10, 05:27 PM   #4
Patrick
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Originally Posted by Daox View Post
Why is it so hard to get people to even make simple small changes?
Incrementalism. You boil the frog by raising the temperature slowly, so that it doesn't notice or doesn't care. They do the same with prices on everything. People don't care if gas or bread or milk prices went up one cent this week (and doubled in a year or two). But if they doubled overnight changes would happen very quickly (the frog would jump out of the pot).
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