Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.