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483. What’s Wrong With Shortcuts?

Freakonomics Radio

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Thinking Better - Is There a Short Cut?

Mat doesn't make moral judgments. People do. Some people may find that a firm like ober creates so much value for consumers that it's perfectly fine that they skirted the law to do so. Others may feel that laws aren't meant to be broken, and that the slope becomes very slippery when you start weighing the value of a law against the utility of breaking it. And let's not forget there are hard problems where even breaking ar won't help. Hereis one last excerpt from thinking better. Sometimes it's just as important to know when there are no short cuts to the problem you're trying to crack. Knowing that the long way around is the only way to your destination will

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