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All the pro sports cheating news validates those 2005 Freakanomics Fags
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Date: November 10th, 2025 7:56 AM Author: cell phones Iirc, they had a chapter in the original book about cheating in Sumo, and basically concluded that incentives rule everything.
Sparked a lot of hot takes at the time, but no one seemed to want to extrapolate to students, doctors, lawyers, judges, cops, spouses, etc etc, with the dismal recognition that humans are BUILT TO CHEAT
This seems like another failure of the Enlightenment-Lib Project, which presumed you can shake off the uncomfortable structure of organized state religion and just rely on some "rational moral code" to rule the hearts of men.
Kant was probably a top-10 smart dood ever, and even he spent the better part of his peak years churning out explanations of this interior moral duty that men were just going to honor. |
Date: November 10th, 2025 8:05 AM Author: Goy A This is what Nick Fuentes told Tucker about why women are ruining America. He said it's just the incentive structure. No fault divorce. Alimony. Abortion. Women have all of these advantages and they simply use them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795567&forum_id=2Reputation#49416419) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 8:28 AM Author: zarathustra there was nothing new about the decades-long / centuries-long "incentives" discussion by the time a few autistic and derivative economists decided to cash in on it with a few tedious examples designed for the lowest-brow audience willing to pick up a non-fiction book (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795567&forum_id=2Reputation#49416441) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 8:31 AM Link to your best threads before I engage you further (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795567&forum_id=2Reputation#49416444) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:22 AM Author: zarathustra it was great, just tremendous (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795567&forum_id=2Reputation#49416560) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 8:36 AM Author: Raul Mondesi circa 1998 why do people hate on freakonomics so much? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795567&forum_id=2Reputation#49416453) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:02 AM Author: LathamTouchedMe It unfairly caught a lot of flak when it became popular among the midwit crowd. I still think it holds up well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795567&forum_id=2Reputation#49416517) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:09 AM Author: zarathustra because it is an exercise in banal and tiresome reductionism by way of tedious examples offered in an attempt to "prove" a narrow vector of human nature that nobody disputes, except when terms are poorly defined and/or the participating interlocutors are retarded pedants
creation of an intellectual debate where none exists but where autistic economists want to believe one exists because they don't know the positivism they think is so advanced is 200 years old and think everyone else is still caught up on heliocentrism or some shit
otherwise it's just trivia / lowbrow entertainment and fine if treated as such |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:14 AM Author: Don Spaceporn De La Squancha (✅🍑) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795567&forum_id=2Reputation#49416533) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:27 AM Author: coiffed sandwich it wasnt a philosophical treatise. it was aimed at popularizing the idea that incentives matter more than anything else to drive behavior. that incentives matter the most is ignored in our own lives and policy making. it was a popcorn economics/social studies book. who ever thought otherwise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795567&forum_id=2Reputation#49416576) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:31 AM Author: LathamTouchedMe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795567&forum_id=2Reputation#49416585) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:08 AM Author: zarathustra you pretend as though this wasn't a driver and reflection of the intellectual climate at the time.
this is an expression of an entire school of thought that takes itself seriously and sees this kind of discourse as enlightened intellectual conversation, if popularized for plebs. |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:12 AM Author: wait till biggus dickus hears of this Because it inexorably leads to the conclusion that blacks do more crimes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795567&forum_id=2Reputation#49416527) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 8:56 AM Author: LathamTouchedMe "This seems like another failure of the Enlightenment-Lib Project, which presumed you can shake off the uncomfortable structure of organized state religion and just rely on some "rational moral code" to rule the hearts of men"
You initially argue like an economist and then claim state-sponsored religion would somehow make things better. I think most libs, at least the non far leftist types, think very much in the spirit of Freakonomics. Maybe too much so. |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:22 AM Author: cell phones i think once you stare down the truth that incentives are king, you come to the realization that men are dark beasts.
the lib project thinkers threw off the yoke of religion with some childlike belief that people, universally, would behave nobly - as wealthy, educated, protestant northern european men do towards each other while sipping brandy or beer.
that all people need to do is use reason to discover their innate moral duties, dwelling like a ghost in their breast, or by extrapolating the greater good, etc etc.
that men would override obvious and selfish and brutish incentives for the light of "reason".
The church lmao'd in the background at this foolishness, but then lost.
Humans need a yoke or will cheat moral codes each and every time they possibly can. |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:28 AM Author: sizzle chest That book was so gay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795567&forum_id=2Reputation#49416579) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 10:31 AM Author: odlaw (malcolm gladwell) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795567&forum_id=2Reputation#49416727) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 11:12 AM Author: ;::;:;;::;;;;;:::: (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795567&forum_id=2Reputation#49416831) |
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Date: November 10th, 2025 12:41 PM Author: chopped chud unc yeah incentives rule everything. everyone smart knows this
never read that book but it sounds like its authors were smart and knew what they were talking about |