Economic Documentary Punch: Economics and Society, Ethics, Education

Angela 2022-09-17 09:44:00

When I feel that I will return to my identity as a social person, I will continue to understand economic knowledge.

Viewpoints in the film:

1. Real estate agents do not necessarily think about you, and advise customers to sign as soon as possible. In fact, this is easy to figure out. The sales industry is of course working hard for how much compensation it can actually get.

2. There is a big difference between black and white names. Many names may sound like black names, which should be a special case of American society. But many times it is not your name that determines your life, but your background and growth environment that determines your name and then affects your life.

I hope the parents of the children are serious about naming their children.

Agree! Benefit creates motivation.

Cheating in sumo is a lot like the water-release competition in some international competitions. I remember that some athletes also participated in table tennis competitions before. Because of the rules of the competition, they had already entered the finals and had to play the remaining game, but it didn’t matter whether they won or lost. As a result, the athlete deliberately lost to his teammates in the game so that his teammates could advance, and he was fined.

I think this is a bug in the rules of the game? It's just that human nature can be more difficult to resist when it happens to encounter flawed rules.

transfer game results

Sumo wrestlers choose not to fight as hard as they can.

The Japanese police also have a disgraceful side, blindly pursuing the detection rate.

Police also have KPIs

It is also mentioned here that forced births bring in a low-quality population, which further leads to increased crime rates.

Problems caused by forced births in Romania

Motivation is a good thing.

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Extended Reading

Freakonomics quotes

  • Steven Levitt - Author: The closest thing to a worldview, I would say, in "Freakonomics," is that incentives matter. Not just financial incentives, but social incentives and moral incentives.