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by pyre 3448 days ago
It's a question of scope though. The parent to your post is trying to scope the risk to "the risk of losing $1 million", not "the risk of financial hardship." If you can both get on the same page with respect to this, then you won't be talking past each other.
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The person you're replying to understands this. They demonstrated that they took the effort to understand the person they're replying to by including the smaller scope in their comments.

GGP is either incapable of comprehending the broader scope for whatever reason, or is deliberately limiting the scope to "win."