Tuesday, March 10, 2020

The Toilet Roll Paradox

What?! Coronavirus? Financial Crisis?! Influenza A?

Okay, let me get this straight since so many people are worried about whether they're going to be in the "The Walking Dead" scenario soon. Apparently it's not, but likely shown the human nature exactly from the series in live, i mean now!

There's a curious Aussie walking into the supermarket in Australia, interviewing the crowd grabbing and snatching a whole trolley of toilet roll. He asked, "Why are you grabbing so many toilet rolls?". Out of expectations, they replied like no one ever asked before, "because coronavirus". Then he asked, "How would these toilet rolls help you on coronavirus?", they replied, "...i just need these because mine is running short."

Hahaha...Henry Ford once said, "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."

In human psychology, people worried when things running short, if you announce there will be no more production for Starbucks mug, indeed they will grab every single mug from the store regardless of their need. Same goes to toilet roll, if you announce there is shortage of toilet roll in all the supermarkets, then you'll see the crowd fighting and grabbing as many of them possible. In SG and MY, we called it "Kia Su". That's right, this happens when your did not use the brain to think, and react naturally on the stimulus of environment. 

Just blogging here and no offense to anyone, but i'm quite sure Malaysia will have similar scenery soon if ever happened to be.

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