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		aikinai on Nov 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories Who’s we? I doubt anyone would claim that most people are rational.

arethuza on Nov 2, 2020 [–]

Didn't some economists claim exactly that?

"economic man, is the portrayal of humans as agents who are consistently rational, narrowly self-interested, and who pursue their subjectively-defined ends optimally"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus

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