Donald Roy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisMayLA6</span></a></span> </p><p>Otherwise known as 'the St. Petersburg Effect' . The logical outcome of which would be for the government to provide safe investments - such as gilts and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nationalsavings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalsavings</span></a> - for the less well off and to balance this out by investing in high risk areas itself! This was a policy towards which the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a> was moving half a century ago - before the advent of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/margaretthatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>margaretthatcher</span></a> . An example of a road not taken ?</p>