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57: Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

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The Cost of Zero Cost

The main idea is that the presence of a free option can cause you to make bad decisions. He has a couple, a couple three places where he mentions how he wants governments to regulate something. And in every case, my only thought was that you're referring to irrationality in humans and saying that that is the nature of humans. So yeah. You've got cyclical reasoning here. It doesn't work that way.

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