Re:Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular?
by thoughtexplorer on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:35PM
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Sadly that extends to everything. Story and emotion trump facts.
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Re:Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular?
by da_chicken on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @02:31PM
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Over the short term. Over the human term.
Over the long term, facts win out because facts tend not to change. People will moan and complain and twist and excuse and blame, but facts just don't give up being facts. Facts don't get tired or change their mind. It might take 10 years or a hundred or a thousand. Truth is patient like that.
Unfortunately, that doesn't really solve any problems in the short term before people start dying.