
Nomoney
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There is something to be said about path dependency and self-rationalization in choices (or preferences) being more endemic than most economists portray, but I’d like to give an example that shows you can probably write those things as being about constraint anyways. I wanted to do academic economics since early high school, but I was never great at focusing on learning math or coding. I could read old papers, think about the economy, and write about it, but I never could model or identify well. When I got to college, I knew I had to study hard and learn those things, take the hardest classes, work for the best professors, etcetera so I could break into the field, but I also knew that I wanted to make friends, socialize, go to parties, find love, etcetera. None of those things happened, of course. So what gives? Certainly a lot of that was running into constraints on my feasible choice set, id est, people really despising me as a person, cliqueness, difficulties socializing whilst autistic, short, and ugly, people being very type-insular, etc. However, I’d argue that at some point, because substitution in skill investment is at least partially irreversible, my choice set became endogenously further constrained on a permanent basis. I took harder classes that took up more time. I moved far from campus. I took PhD classes because being around other undergrads when none of them wanted to talk to me was really painful. This lead to further time constraints and further isolation, and a further warping of my mind and a decline in my social skills. This made me relate far less to others, more resentful, and less able to do anything but work. Spiral. No attenuation. Never did my underlying preference change, but my ability to express them got worse as I settled into a Pareto-inefficient system. This is all to say, GARP says a lot more about budget set than preferences.




I’m pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the Declaration and the Constitution. And so today I’m a Democrat.







Im vergangenen Jahr wurden in Deutschland 654.300 Kinder geboren – 1,01 Millionen Menschen starben. So wenige Geburten gab es zuletzt im Jahr 1946. trib.al/yPwxzxN



Niemand leidet so sehr unter der Migrationspolitik seit 2015 wie gut integrierte Migranten.





He leído su historia y me parece una barbaridad que esto esté pasando en España. En 2022 sufrió una violación múltiple en un centro tutelado. Tras intentar quitarse la vida, quedó parapléjica. Ahora, el sistema le da luz verde para morir en vez de garantizarle apoyo, tratamiento y dignidad para vivir. En 24 horas, Noelia será la primera persona en recibir la eutanasia por depresión en España. Esto también es un fracaso colectivo.


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@TheXReportCard bro, how are you offended? The only white people that got killed were the ones from the KKK and that one vampire who actually killed two white people. How the fuck are you offended?







