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Luck is fifty-fifty - fifty heads and fifty tales, with runs - one-or-the-other in sequential succession segments. But on large fifty-fifty over the long run. The two sides of Whatwas and Whatnot - a fifty-fifty proposition. If it goes my-way then it-is Whatwas. If it does not - it's Whatnot.

Pick a profession. What are the Whatnots ? The Whatwas a matter of course purely necessary. But Whatnot can have frills. Weigh the frills on the Whatwas-to-Whatnots scale. I don't do Whatnot.

There are geological places, one may have heard where gravity is askew. Round rolls up hill. There is one in Oregon that had-had a private gold assaying station on it. In this gravity-particularity, gold weighed-out not so heavy and they paid the miners less than what it really weighed. No - can't win there. The game is fixed. The gravity is fixed, "but gold weighs the same for everyone", unless in this anomaly. Gravity is fair and the same the world over. "If they cannot figure out the game is rigged here, that is there problem. We didn't rig it. It was here. It was natural. We can't be their baby-sitters". It is equal for everyone was the whiskey-talk. But the kicker - "they would do it to me, if the shoe were on the other foot. So I am first, fastest on the draw, shoot-first and ask questions later. Can't be too careful". Welcome to Whatnot, the golden gate-way to the world.

The system is based on trust. I am honest. I can trust you. It is not-you I am particularly worried about. I want a reality I can trust. I don't want it fooling me by chance. I don't care if they are dishonest, as long as I can predict the outcome.

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