It’s because they can’t imagine themselves doing it so they imagine that everyone must be like that. It’s part hubris and part lack of creativity/empathy. Thin

It’s because they can’t imagine themselves doing it so they imagine that everyone must be like that. It’s part hubris and part lack of creativity/empathy. Think about if you’ve ever known someone you’ve been envious of for whatever reason who did something that just perplexed you. “They dumped their gorgeous partner, how could they do that?” “They quit a dream job, how could they do that?” “They moved out of that awesome apartment, how could they do that?” “They dropped out of that elite school, how could they do that?” Very easily actually. You’re seeing only part of the picture. Beautiful people are just as annoying as everybody else. Every dream job has a part that sucks. If you can’t imagine that, you’re not trying hard enough. You can see this in action in a lot of ways. One good one is the Ultimatum Game: https://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/microeconomics/04-strategic-interactions-11-ultimatum-game.html https://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/microeconomics/04-stra... Most people will end up thinking that they have an ironclad logical strategy but if you ask them about it, it’ll end up that their strategy is treating the other player as a carbon copy of themselves.