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53 Post author: Yvain 17 October 2011 06:49PM

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Comment author: endoself 28 October 2011 03:41:32AM *  0 points [-]

Maybe benefits to the relatively rich feel far off, while benefits to the relatively poor feel like a risk of being overtaken?

This sound like the last-place aversion discussed in the post. I agree that there could be a negative affect toward `falling into last place', but I don't think people are worried about not being able to afford as much stuff. The former is intuitive, while the latter requires knowledge of economics, which simply isn't common knowledge in our society.