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Isn't the fact that economists think differently to the public proof itself that education and thinking on these matters does change your mind? Unless economists all self-select from a pool with different ethical foundations to most other people then they would have had the view of the typical non-economist if they hadn't chosen to pursue that education and career path.

Perhaps the depressing part is the amount of immersion in thinking in that way that is needed to see the problem differently, not that it cannot be done.

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Yes I think this is right. But that level of economics education is impractical at a society-wide level.

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These results may not be as disheartening as painted. Human hard-wired ethical intuitions developed in actual zero-sum circumstances in which profiting from the misfortune of others would NOT benefit others. They may not apply when scarcity pricing can be reasonably seen as mitigating the scarcity.

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