Model Limitations in Financial Decision-Making
An economic model is built to help a recent graduate decide between two options: 1) depositing their savings into a government-insured savings account with a guaranteed 2% annual interest rate, or 2) investing the same amount in a single, newly-launched technology company. The model assumes that all future financial outcomes are known and certain. Describe a specific, plausible, and uncertain outcome for the technology company investment that this model fails to consider, and briefly explain why this omission makes the model's comparison unreliable.
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