• argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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      It’s not unrealistic to assume that most people don’t want to do a hard, miserable, body-ruining, thankless job (i.e. farming) in exchange for absolutely nothing.

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        I didn’t specify that one assumption. I was thinking more like what the ither comment said.

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      Well I mean, most of the liberal and classical economists generally try to predict the behaviors of consumers, which lead to assumptions such as “People will generally be selfish”.

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        Because they’re put in an economic system where if they aren’t - they starve.