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Working Your Way to Happiness

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

CHAPTER

Smith's Principles of Human Nature Revealed

The idea that people need to get paid in return for their labor was central to some of smith's deeper ideas about human nature. Smith's view of humans as lazy pay check seekers pervaded the entire industrial revolution. But it would take more than a hundred years before smith's concepts were tested scientifically. Seventeen decades after the publication of the wealth of nations, rats gave smith's ideas of human nature the scientific veneer they needed....

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