> because you know you literally did nothing to deserve it.
This greatly underestimates the level of vanity. Look only at the number of people who inherited their wealth, or received substantial financial support, yet still consider themselves self-made. I would also expect this to concentrate deistic thinking as people with a religious mindset will see being chosen as God's will and use the gained power to reinforce that.
I don't think I'd want to live in a country governed by the Dunning-Kruger effect. (Or maybe I already do?)
Most comedy is tragic.[1] And laughing is an inherently selfish act, as Mel Brooks observed when he said, "comedy is when you fall in an open sewer and die."[2]
The old "Foxhole radio" trick of using a rusty razor blade as a diode comes to mind. Some metal oxide coatings are semiconducting and under the right conditions will form a Schottky barrier.
The other outcome of the increased population ratio is that it becomes very cheap to buy a law. If you can convince one representative to vote your way you've captured the votes of 770 thousand people. That's a juicy conversion rate. A larger Congress would raise the cost of K-street. Shifting the balance of political power back to the electorate.
If you want to lock customers into a contract then call it a contract. Every subscription plan very ominously states "this is not a contract" so the company has no obligation to provide the promised level of service and can change the plan at any time. Yet here they are arguing that customers don't have the right to terminate a subscription. That's called a contract and you can't have it both ways.
This greatly underestimates the level of vanity. Look only at the number of people who inherited their wealth, or received substantial financial support, yet still consider themselves self-made. I would also expect this to concentrate deistic thinking as people with a religious mindset will see being chosen as God's will and use the gained power to reinforce that.
I don't think I'd want to live in a country governed by the Dunning-Kruger effect. (Or maybe I already do?)