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by aikinai 2050 days ago
Who’s we? I doubt anyone would claim that most people are rational.
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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