[quote=briansd1][quote=davelj]
So, to get back to your original post, MOST people get utility out of being financially responsible, even if it negatively affects their overall wealth. This does not mean that they are acting against their own economic interests. You’ve merely defined “economic interests” incorrectly.[/quote]
Of course you are correct about utility. The only problem is that it can’t easily be objectively measured.[/quote]
Very few things of real importance in a person’s life can be “objectively measured,” the single most important of them (in my view, anyway) being “contentment.”
