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Just noticed if you also decrease something by 10%, then increase by 10%, you also get a net loss of 1. Math itself is biased towards loss.
Anyone convinced in the malevolent creator theory yet?
Increase by 10 then decrease by 10. Same problem. Math is lossy.
Adding flat numbers is different from adding a percent.