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Re:Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women by avs733 on Friday March 16, 2018 @05:17PM (#16604090)
Your assuming that markets are logical.

We now have a solid understanding that human decision making is rarely logical and only barely rational, what makes anyone actually think (rather than believe/assume) that firms really don't act in the same way?

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Re:Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women by ddorian43 on Friday March 16, 2018 @05:24PM (#16604137)
It is assumed when you have more $$$ you are more logical I think.
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Re:Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women by avs733 on Friday March 16, 2018 @06:18PM (#16604393)
I mean thats the literal critique of the scientific paradigm that frames the vast majority of management and strategy discourse...the conflation of success with being logical.
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Re:Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women by __jal on Friday March 16, 2018 @06:54PM (#16604553)
Assumed by whom? I'm guessing irrational people.
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