Marginal-cost-of-lurking

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marginal-cost-of-lurking

Title text: This comic supersedes the dragon hoard one, which was made in error.

Votey

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Mom! Dad! There's a monster under my bed!

Sorry, that's not possible. It'd violate the efficient market hypothesis.

Suppose monsters exist and they want to eat kids. Their time is valuable. Why would they spend all of it lurking? We ought to see a variety of firms developed catering to the needs of monsters, in exchange for their golden hoards.

You can use the same reasoning to rule out dragons, fairies, leprechauns, vampires, yokai, ghosts, you name it.

I survive the night, but wonder does not.

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However, I am prepared to pay you 4 dollars to pretend I have solved your problem.

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