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Most of the choices that shape a life were never chosen at all.
A cheap, gentle, evidence-based way to make people better off. What could go wrong?
Most advice assumes a person who never existed.
Alone we are lazy thinkers. In disagreement we become sharp. That is not a bug.
What feels like a preference is often just a default nobody questioned.
Economists have a model. The rest of us have a Tuesday.
The mind is built for a different world. It copes remarkably well with this one.
We are far better at explaining our choices than at making them.
Before we try to fix people, it is worth understanding what they are for.