{"id":9276,"date":"2013-07-14T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9276"},"modified":"2013-07-14T17:17:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T21:17:31","slug":"a-market-for-changing-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/a-market-for-changing-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"A Market For Changing The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/071413_1521_AMarketForC1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Attempting to change the future costs about $1,000 in Japan write Jake Adelstein, and Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Japan palm-reading is a popular means of fortune-telling.<\/li>\n<li>People who are unhappy with the lines on their palm can have plastic surgery that adds new lines, thus (allegedly) changing the individual&#8217;s fortune.<\/li>\n<li>The surgery takes around 10 minutes and individuals get up to 10 new lines.<\/li>\n<li>One doctor has had to learn the art of palm-reading to ensure that his patients don&#8217;t end up asking him for inauspicious lines.<\/li>\n<li>Men are more likely to change lines related to business success, while women prefer to change marriage and romance lines.<\/li>\n<li>Anecdotal evidence suggests that the surgeries are successful \u2013 those who have gone through the surgery have seen their fates transformed.<\/li>\n<li>This is probably a self-fulfilling prophecy. If an individual is committed enough to get the lines on their palm changed, they&#8217;re also probably taking other actions to achieve their vision.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the practice, how it is done, and why learning how to read palms is a useful skill in Japan over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/07\/12\/your-future-is-in-the-palm-of-your-surgeon-s-hand.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/07\/12\/your-future-is-in-the-palm-of-your-surgeon-s-hand.html\">The Daily Beast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/07\/the-culture-that-is-japan-markets-in-everything-newcombs-paradox-edition.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attempting to change the future costs about $1,000 in Japan write Jake Adelstein, and Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky: In Japan palm-reading is a popular means of fortune-telling. People who are unhappy with the lines on their palm can have plastic surgery that adds new lines, thus (allegedly) changing the individual&#8217;s fortune. The surgery takes around 10 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/071413_1521_AMarketForC1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9279,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276\/revisions\/9279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}