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pm.investments.com. Legacy p.m. Investments.com. Have you ever heard the metaphor of the frog

in the boiling water? Listen to this because I think it's really relevant right now. The boiling frog story is generally offered as a metaphor, cautioning people to be aware of even gradual change lest they suffer eventual undesirable consequences.

This is sort of like death by a thousand cuts.

Okay, stay with me.

It may be invoked in support of a slippery slope argument as a caution against creeping

normality.

Think of rising gas prices.

They go way up so that when they only come a little bit down,

you think, oh, now we're saving money, even though they're still higher than they were before.

Creeping normality. It is also used in business to reinforce that change needs to be gradual

to be accepted.

The term boiling frog syndrome is a metaphor used to describe the failure to act against a problematic situation, which will increase in severity until reaching catastrophic proportions.

It thereby encapsulates the barely noticeable impact of slow environmental degradation that has been described by Daniel Polly as shifting baselines.

If you don't think we have shifting baselines going on at epic proportions right now in America, really across the globe.

Think again.

We, we are the frog that started in a pot of water where we could survive.

And the heat is coming on and slowly but surely that frog is going to boil to its death.

Catastrophic outcomes.

Why do I think this?

I don't think it.

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