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Re:The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh by MathMonkeyMan on Saturday March 15, 2025 @01:17AM (#43370166)
It hinders individuals from making purchasing decisions that affect price. Less clarity on the actual price means that it's harder to shop around.
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Re:The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh by phil21 on Saturday March 15, 2025 @04:05PM (#43374846)
I’m convinced nearly every problem in the modern US economy boils down to a principle agent problem in the end.
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Re:The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh by namaria on Sunday March 16, 2025 @07:42AM (#43378255)
I think you mean principal
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Re:The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh by dragonwriter on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:53PM (#43382206)
Properly its neither a "principle agent problem" nor a "principal agent problem" but a "principal-agent problem" (that is, the problem is a conflict between the principal and the agent [both nouns] nominally acting on behalf of that principal, not a problem with the principal [adjective] agent [noun].)
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Re:The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh by namaria on Sunday March 16, 2025 @07:55PM (#43383779)
That's still two words and only one was wrong. Hyphenation is not mandatory, there is no formal description of a "problem with the principal [adjective] agent [noun]" to be disambiguated from.
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