Analogies
This weekend it came up that my mother had smoked and drank alcohol while she was pregnant. She said, "It's hard for people to imagine that they didn't know then that smoking was bad for you, but they didn't think it was a big deal!" We started talking about how there are all kinds of things that happen and we don't find out until later that they're bad for you. The conversation was definitely focused on health and pregnancy.
And my father the accountant says, "that's just like investment regulation! Right now investments aren't regulated, but they're going to figure out that's bad and in a few years it'll all be regulated, and after that, no one will be able to believe that it wasn't always regulated!" Which caused my cousin-in-law to say, "we're talking about pregnancy and you have an analogy to investments??"
And my father the accountant says, "that's just like investment regulation! Right now investments aren't regulated, but they're going to figure out that's bad and in a few years it'll all be regulated, and after that, no one will be able to believe that it wasn't always regulated!" Which caused my cousin-in-law to say, "we're talking about pregnancy and you have an analogy to investments??"