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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://babka.social/users/shekinahcancook/statuses/111892762255413147">Kitchen Priestess (She/Her) (shekinahcancook@babka.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 09:00:56 JST</a><a href="https://babka.social/@shekinahcancook" title="shekinahcancook@babka.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/153855-48-20230808124835.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Kitchen Priestess (She/Her)" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Kitchen Priestess (She/Her)</a></section><article><p>Can confirm. Even a casual review of Philosophy of Economics material turns up a pile of asshats who can't grok that normal people don't act or think like them.</p><p><a href="https://volewica.blogspot.com/2019/07/where-adam-smith-went-wrong.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://volewica.blogspot.com/2019/07/where-adam-smith-went-wrong.html</a></p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/Economics" rel="tag">#Economics</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2690467#notice-5335136">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-02-08T09:00:56+09:00" title="Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 09:00:56 JST">about 10 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://babka.social/@shekinahcancook/111892762255413147" rel="external" title="Sent from babka.social via ActivityPub">babka.social</a></span></span><a href="https://babka.social/@shekinahcancook/111892762255413147">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2229602">Frans de Waal said:    In 1879, American economist Francis Walker tried to explain why members of his profession were in such "bad odor amongst real people". He blamed it on their inability to understand why human behavior fails to comply with economic theory. We do not always act the way economists think we should, mainly because we're both less selfish and less rational than economists think we are. Economists are being indoctrinated into a cardboard version of human nature, which they hold true to such a degree that their own behavior has begun to resemble it. Psychological tests have shown that economics majors are more egoistic than the average college student. Exposure in class after class to the capitalist self-interest model apparently kills off whatever prosocial tendencies these students have to begin with. They give up trusting others, and conversely others give up trusting them. Hence the bad odor.</a></label><br><a href="https://babka-mastodon.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/111/892/750/511/379/960/original/8473a3d651fd47eb.png" rel="external">https://babka-mastodon.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/111/892/750/511/379/960/original/8473a3d651fd47eb.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Kitchen Priestess (She/Her) (shekinahcancook@babka.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 09:00:56 JST Kitchen Priestess (She/Her)
Can confirm. Even a casual review of Philosophy of Economics material turns up a pile of asshats who can't grok that normal people don't act or think like them.
https://volewica.blogspot.com/2019/07/where-adam-smith-went-wrong.html
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1. Frans de Waal said: In 1879, American economist Francis Walker tried to explain why members of his profession were in such "bad odor amongst real people". He blamed it on their inability to understand why human behavior fails to comply with economic theory. We do not always act the way economists think we should, mainly because we're both less selfish and less rational than economists think we are. Economists are being indoctrinated into a cardboard version of human nature, which they hold true to such a degree that their own behavior has begun to resemble it. Psychological tests have shown that economics majors are more egoistic than the average college student. Exposure in class after class to the capitalist self-interest model apparently kills off whatever prosocial tendencies these students have to begin with. They give up trusting others, and conversely others give up trusting them. Hence the bad odor.
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