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I don't understand what you mean by "all value comes from risk." Could you give examples? I don't understand how, say, the value of some food you buy at a grocery store comes from risk.

Also, you say that "instinctually people get they don't want to become solved problems and known quantities," but at least a large subset of the population wants to be famous. And it seems like being trusted by people you know has its benefits too?

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The way I think of it, risk of accident of the delivery truck, the risk of the farm getting their crops ruined, risk of insolvency or net x day term payments, risk of loans taken out to cover patented seeds, risk of expired food.

If nobody wanted to take the risk to plant each time given the potential ROI, you wouldn't get grocery items?

(I'd consider this a random example https://www.callifd.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130789654/chili_pepp...)

Okay, but if you reduced or eliminated one of the risks, doesn’t the food still have the same value as before? It seems like the risk is something like a cost, to be optimized away if you can without reducing value. And it isn’t the only cost.

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