A student in my microeconomics class asked a question. "But what if people aren't really rational maximizers?" It shook me to my core. The very foundation of my life's work crumbled in an instant. The question so profound. Now I walk alone, a shell of myself, in existential despair.
What fundamentally "broke" you? What was the point of no return?
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Weak troll
A student in my microeconomics class asked a question. "But what if people aren't really rational maximizers?" It shook me to my core. The very foundation of my life's work crumbled in an instant. The question so profound. Now I walk alone, a shell of myself, in existential despair.
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does economics have a good answer to this? its a good question that we just handwave away.
A student in my microeconomics class asked a question. "But what if people aren't really rational maximizers?" It shook me to my core. The very foundation of my life's work crumbled in an instant. The question so profound. Now I walk alone, a shell of myself, in existential despair.
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does economics have a good answer to this? its a good question that we just handwave away.
A student in my microeconomics class asked a question. "But what if people aren't really rational maximizers?" It shook me to my core. The very foundation of my life's work crumbled in an instant. The question so profound. Now I walk alone, a shell of myself, in existential despair.
"Let's just suppose they are."
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Thanks for introducing me to this question that now economist has ever thought of ornwrestywith before!
You’re very deep for a high school student you know that?
does economics have a good answer to this? its a good question that we just handwave away.
A student in my microeconomics class asked a question. "But what if people aren't really rational maximizers?" It shook me to my core. The very foundation of my life's work crumbled in an instant. The question so profound. Now I walk alone, a shell of myself, in existential despair.
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Damn if anyone needed buddhism
Hi, I am young and unbroken. Change my mind.
Nothing, in a cosmic sense, has any meaning or purpose.
On top of that, it's impossible to rigorously KNOW anything. Any induction reasoning is subject to the problem of induction and any deductive reasoning is subject to the regress problem. Abduction is a joke so let's not go there. Even if you set out axioms to deduce mathematical truths, then comes the impossibility theorems to crush your soul.
So basically, upon naive reflection you're just an idiotic know-nothing in a meaningless existence, although you are so pathetic that you cannot even be sure of that. -
Sad thing is, there are probably more honest researchers among the "HRM lemons" than HRMers who succeed. You'll realize this if you went to a HRM program, worked with multiple professors in a field who can't code nor understand econometrics, and realized that their main skillset is cooking data and lying about their results.
Name and shame