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by rstuart4133 2168 days ago
> Each of which has a .00001% chance of happening.

More to the point, you're in a dog eat dog world, and for most of those dogs this 0.00001% chance won't happen in the lifetime of the firm. So they don't spend money on mitigating it, which gives them a competitive advantage over every dog that does spend the money.

Spend money on enough 0.00001% things, and they will grind you into the dust. Locally the way out is legislation that evens that playing field by forcing everybody to spend that money. But you can't control low cost overseas producers in that way.

Nothing is as easy as it appears.