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It Is Helpful To Think Of People As Having Two Fundamental Motivations: The Desire To See Ourselves As Honest, Good People, And The Desire To Gain The Benefits That Come From Cheating - On Our Taxes Or On The Football Field.

Kids Don't Care What Party They Have, Right? They Want Cake And They Want To Run Around. Nothing Else Matters. But In This Escalation, All The Kids Want Parties Like Their Friends. So, If All The Friends Have An Amazing, Expensive Party, They All Want The Same Thing. If We All Got To Scale Down As A Coordinated Effort, All The Kids Would Have Been Just As Happy.

When We Save, Everybody In The Household Is Just Suffering. By Having The Coin In A Visible Way, When You Scratch, You Can Say The Person That Is In Charge Of The Making Money For The Family Is Doing The Right Thing.

I Always Found The Appeal To The Market Gods A Bit Odd. Why Would The Market Fix Mistakes Instead Of Aggravating Them?

Money Is A Wonderful Invention. It Lets Us Save, It Lets Us Specialize, Right? I Couldn't Be A Professor If There Wasn't Any Money. Every Day I Would Have To Raise Chicken And Bread And Broccoli And Go Ahead And Spend All My Time Trading. So, Money Is A Wonderful Mechanism.