每日原则：​我们所面临的未来很可能与大多数人所预期的情况迥然不同

例如，我父亲和大多数他的同龄人经历了大萧条和二战，他们从未想到二战后经济会出现繁荣，因为这不同于（而非类似于）他们的经历。由于自身的经历，他们不会考虑借款，也不会把辛苦攒下的积蓄投入股市，因此我们不难理解他们错过了从美国经济繁荣中获利的机会。同样，我也可以理解，在几十年后，一些人通过大肆借款进行投机。因为他们只经历过债务融资拉动的经济繁荣，从未经历过经济萧条和战争，所以他们认为未来不会出现经济萧条和战争。

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For example, my dad and most of his peers who went through the Great Depression and World War II never imagined the post-war economic boom because it was more different from than similar to what they had experienced. I understand why, given those experiences, they wouldn’t think of borrowing and putting their hard-earned savings into the stock market, so it’s understandable that they missed out on profiting from the boom. Similarly, I understand why, decades later, those who only experienced debt-financed booms and never experienced depression and war would borrow a lot in order to speculate and would consider depression and war implausible.