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I wish, but after 40 years on this planet I've come to the conclusion that certain systemic forms of irrationality are incredibly difficult to "educate out" of the population. I suspect that we fall for these things over and over because our central nervous systems just haven't evolved to be very good at certain kinds of reasoning. Maintaining rationality in these areas is effortful and as soon as we slack off we slip back into familiar shortcuts.

I'll be more optimistic about this when I see sales of lottery tickets start dropping dramatically and when stuff like this stops happening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCcwn6bGUtU

Gambling and silly financial schemes are driven by the same sorts of logical fallacies as those I discussed up top.