I bought Aeron chairs for an agency I joined after the 2008 financial crash. They were from Bank of America. Six months later I found a hole in our agency's finances and we went bust.

A bit stitious too.

On the etymology of "superstitious":

* https://oxfordre.com/classics/display/10.1093/acrefore/97801...

imagine that same chair is recycled over and over again that chair has fineprint of killstreak of how many bussiness failling like how pilot cross their cockpit to signify how many plane he shootdown

Sounds like something Netflix would make into a two season show with a cliffhanger that the chair makes it into the Oval Office but Netflix cancels the show without resolution.

House of Chairs

Was the hole in the agency's finances due to high spending on very expensive chairs, tho?

I'm not superstitious. Well, maybe I'm a bit stitious.

I'm not either, if only because being superstitious brings bad luck.

But still. There's this inexplicable feeling that "failure is contagious"

You can look at it another way - the chair's bad luck is all used up!

I don't want to be the one getting the dregs of someone's chair's bad luck.

I want it completely clean of bad luck, or I want my own fresh bad luck!

Yeah because I got it effectively on discount. Sitting in it would be a reminder of how to prioritize business and spending.

Both a trophy and a reminder of our financial mortality.

You learn more from your failures than your successes. Those chairs have experience.

Yes. It's not contagious through sitting on surfaces.

Some cultures believe in objects absorbing negative energy. Tons of Asian films are about homes harboring souls who faced injustice.

Very famously, US cabinet member Donald Rumsfeld purchased Mount Misery to live in. Even in the west this shook a lot of heads https://www.democracynow.org/2006/11/22/rumsfelds_mount_mise...

I'm aware. I have not been given convincing evidence that there is any real effect.

I would need more data on how many businesses failed based on ownership of the chair.

If you told me that chair had been used by n successive failed businesses, there is a value of n where I would reject the null hypothesis that the chair has no association with the business failing.

I don't think n=1 is sufficiently large.

You will never get to n sufficiently large - chairs don't last that long. Even if a chair really is that haunted, it will have to be in a startup for 6 months before the money runs out (it will take that long to run out of money after the chair forces it on the bad track - if the startup runs out sooner it wasn't the chair at fault).

But when it breaks, they take the roller wheel and put it on another chair.

Give "Facebook signboard with SUN on the back of it" vibes.