"why doesn't everybody simply be a perfectly rational consumer" and not seeing that what they think of as being "perfectly rational" depends heavily on a level of financial security where they never feel any sense of precarity or worry. "rational" in the sense of existing in a vacuum.

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remembering all the discussion about "well why would you take the smaller guaranteed money instead of the coinflip for the much bigger amount" and it was just "oh you guys don't know at all what it's like to worry. about rent, food, anything. so you don't know why that worry affects others."

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couldn't get this shit out of my head and another thought keeps pressing in, which is that with these types there's a lot of "because we can't quantify stress, anxiety, panic, and even trauma on a chart, it's not real and it doesn't matter"

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well also, as i've found out, apparently economists have their own *academic* definition of "life changing" and are absolutely baffled that it's not what everyone is working from IMO they should probably have a different term because that phrase is made to be interpreted wildly differently!

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caught wind of the Discourse Du Jour today (i had all fuckers blocked beforehand so no wonder i didn't see it) and y'know beyond all matters of economics studies, there's the simple q of "do economists know how to talk to people suffering without being an asshole" and the answer largely being "no"

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