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So, what would you call people that continually make poor life decisions over and over and end up in large amounts of debt for the foreseeable future? Smart?



I believe it's a combination of a necessarily present (as opposed to future) bias, and stress reducing available concentration for good decisions, because that's what the studies on the matter support.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/3880

http://www.cepr.eu/meets/wkcn/7/770/papers/Banerjee.pdf

Have a good look at yourself in the mirror.


"Have a good look at yourself in the mirror."

I don't need to. I look around me and continuously see people making poor life decisions and blaming it on the "system". The truth hurts.




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