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Fellow Motteizans, what are your small scale conspiracy theories? I'm not talking grand narratives here. What minor, apolitical conspiracy theories do you explain to the next table at a diner.
For myself, I think at least some large portion of lottery drawings are not random. I base this belief on the fact that of repeat lottery winners, a suspicious number of them are math professors.
Makeup and skincare products age your face and give you acne and bad skin to make you buy more makeup and skincare products.
I mean, if they don't, the industry is leaving money on the table.
That would make sense, but there's a lot of competition in the market and women do discuss skin care a fair amount.
If your thesis was true, you'd expect poor white women who went without an expensive skin care routine to have better skin in their old age.
That doesn't match what I've seen.
From what I've seen more expensive products do produce better results. I used to work in Canadian politics and there was a sharp salary division. Hill staffers got paid crap. Ministry staffers got paid well.
When a girl moved over to a Ministry it was obvious. Her skin was noticeably better after a few months. Long term it holds up. Although UV protection seems to be the bigger split.
Or she got better sleep and ate better and drank more water.
Multiple women moving to jobs that had worse hours. They were probably eating better.
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