Only 33-45% supported American Revolution. 16% backed the king. Half tried avoiding it. America founded by minority opinion that made everyone 52X richer.

Democracy increases GDP 20% over 30 years. Only get-rich-quick scheme that works. Like compound interest except voting rights make money somehow.

87% of Democrats and 62% of Republicans both predicted they'd win same election. Math doesn't work. Brain lies to you wearing statistics costume.

Median drug development cost is $985 million including failed trials (2009-2018). In 1893 doctors just tested drugs and reported results. Now we have a Valley of Death instead.

Federal Reserve creates money electronically, buys bonds from investors. Bondholders get free money first. By the time it reaches you, inflation already ate it. Money printer go brr.

Every Econ 101 textbook teaches incentives, costs, and second-order effects. Most government policies ignore all three. Like someone passing driver's ed then driving into a lake on purpose.

US suicide rate jumped 40% as vegetable oil went up and actual vegetables dropped 10%. Inflammation steals tryptophan needed to make serotonin.

Saving one cat kills 600 chickens over 15 years. Utilitarianism proves petting your cat is morally worse than euthanizing it.

Stock prices follow profits until positive feedback loops create bubbles. More buyers raise prices, higher prices attract more buyers. Then the music stops and someone's holding the bag.

For 10,000 years life expectancy was 28 and GDP was $100. Around 1800 both went vertical. Humanity spent 10,000 years in tutorial mode then someone pressed start.