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Comment author: Lumifer 27 January 2016 06:25:47PM 2 points [-]

A puzzle?

Economists tend to call a mismatch between their model and reality "a puzzle". Most other people call that "a failure of the model".

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 27 January 2016 09:12:01PM *  -1 points [-]

Agreed with Lumifer on "puzzle." This is why behavioral economics arose in the first place.

There might be a case made that the lawyer doesn't realize this and is caught in a cached pattern of thinking. However, it could also be the case that the lawyer wants to buy hedons by working in the soup kitchen and getting warm fuzzies from that.

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