Performative Virtue: Education

The Culture Wars Part XV

"Winners and losers have the same goals." -James Clear

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The economists like to say, "Actions reveal preferences." Dan Ariely and Michael Norton go a step further. They say that actions create preferences. What then do we make of a large culture of people who constantly state one set of preferences, but never take action to achieve their stated results?