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Private equity can still play a role for younger investors with a high risk tolerance and long time horizons, but the stakes of manager selection and illiquidity are not trivial.

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Which sounds trivial — until you realize this flattening is happening across every domain of life.

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"My portable unit delivers about 2.6 kilowatts of cooling. It's about one kilowatt of electricity, so it's probably about 22p an hour for me to run. It's not trivial."

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De minimis is a Latin term that broadly translates to "about the smallest things", often used in legal contexts to describe matters too trivial to merit concern.

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“Most presidents begin their day with something this trivial,” a former White House official told me.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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