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The basic point is that the vast majority of our brains are automatic and that our conscious part is a slim sliver up front. Mostly, the frontbrain makes up sto

The basic point is that the vast majority of our brains are automatic and that our conscious part is a slim sliver up front. Mostly, the frontbrain makes up stories to rationalize what really happened, and this is error-prone. “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” George Orwell Your last paragraph is interesting. But did that persist, or was it just "switching cost"? Yes, I am from the US and everybody wants to be like us don't they :) It may be that transparency and "fairness" are public goods with low costs of defecting in the prisoner's dilemma of them.

asgard1024 11y ago
> But did that persist, or was it just "switching cost"? Opinion differs, but I think thanks to EU we were forced to accept a reasonable legal prevention to most egregious acts of economic crime. If that didn't happen, we would look.. probably kinda like Russia. In a sense it persisted because the people who got rich during the "gold rush" (usually through botched "privatization" of former state enterprises, but also through various scams) of course didn't lost their wealth. Anyway, the point is, free market left to its own devices is not very pretty; I have seen that as a teenager. Arguably, Americans should remember that lesson from late 19th century.