Reasons We Suffer From The Law Of Unintended Consequences
- We play it safe and do not want to take the time and investigate the root cause of a problem.
- Our many cognitive biases act like blind spots, making us only see immediate threats.
- We focus on something visual and available (like what’s on TV) and worry about those problems instead of focusing on the real but invisible problems which may be more lethal.
- Our decisions have certain compounding effects that are not visible for years, yet when the entire time period and the corresponding events are accounted for, the stupidity of the solution is revealed.
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