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Update on the fake story about the river laborers paying people to whip them

As you might remember from a few months ago , there was a story going around that some economists just looooved to tell. The story had all sorts of attributes that you might expect would make economists happy , including a paradox in which apparently bad behavior (whipping people to get them to work harder) was…
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Oct 29, 2022Update on the fake story about the river laborers paying people to whip them by luu10159

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