Comment Re:Yeah, that's what the term means. (Score 1) 63
while in principle I agree, in practice humans have proven to be easily exploitable.
Our main problem lies in our adrenal response. We are rational human beings until literally our emotions get the better of us. Once our stress response kicks in our rational processes stop and our fight-or-flight instinct takes over, our brain believes our stress is due to a life threating situation, and the mechanisms for our preservation kick in automatically and it's worked since the first animals some millions of years ago, so it's very much ingrained.
Except it's not a predator stalking you it's just the peak stress of signing an important contract. In a contract signing, fight would be signing and fleeing would be not signing, as there is no physical danger you are much more likely to sign than not. Like student loan terms, or loan shark terms... when you think 'how can anyone agree to THOSE terms?' this is how.
Compounded to this is the problem that our brain NEVER stops learning, each thing you repeat (yes, each and every thing) our brain rewires itself to make that connections easier. (like learning to walk, talk, drive, dance, type, smoke, take drugs, ignore the stomach full signal,
And it's quite hard not to be constantly mildly stressed right now anywhere in the world (gee i wonder why?)