Why People Buy $30 Power Cords Against All Reason

An informed theory

Foster Kamer
OneZero
Published in
8 min readMar 7, 2019

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MMaybe you’ve heard of Occam’s Razor? It’s the logical principle that holds that the simplest answer to a question is usually the correct one. And the simplest answer, according to Occam’s Razor, is the one that requires the fewest number of assumptions or jumps in logic to reach the correct conclusion.

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Foster Kamer
OneZero

Hired gun. Contributor—NYT, First We Feast, Gossamer. Priors: Mental Floss, Village Voice, Gawker, Esquire, etc. Est. Las Vegas, 1984. fosterkamer@gmail.com.