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When you stay silent about others' doomed investments in the future

My college roommate just bought a beach house and I wanted to tell her it will be underwater in fifteen years but instead I just said congratulations.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Social politeness prevents you from sharing knowledge that could protect others, making you complicit in their illusions.

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