low expected return but volatile plays are the ONLY way to get equality with open access to compounding systems. outside of financial products this includes things like personal networks, knowledge systems, political capital, personal maturity, etc...
the thing is though, even though the absolute difference is increasing, the time difference is not. the person who is 10 years ahead is always 10 years ahead (until death)
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a culture of “respecting your senpai elders” is a way of dispelling this harmful competitive mindset. it acts as natural social stratification that prevents envy or greed from getting out of hand.
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the lottery play is intuitive for money stuff. but what about other things? “spirituality” is a common high volatility play to catch up to knowledge gaps.
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just like complex gambling rules, you can end up knowing massive massive amounts of basically useless information all for that chance to rocket boost your way to Ultimate Understanding.
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religious-spirituality (spirituality that emphasizes community/groups vs sit-alone-in-cave) is a high volatility play for happiness.
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just like with stagnant religions it creates echo chambers where the criteria for what is right or wrong is who is speaking. it similarly can easily become incestuous and brittle like the slytherin bloodline.
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