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The Four Types of Relationships and the Reputational Cue Ball
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Like the other weapons of influence, the scarcity principle trades on our weakness for shortcuts. The weakness is, as before, an enlightened one. In this case, because we know that the things that are difficult to possess are typically better than those that are easy to possess, we can often use an item’s availability to help us quickly and correctly decide on its quality. Thus, one reason for the potency of the scarcity principle is that, by following it, we are usually and efficiently right.
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini PhD
My study starts from the assumption not only that we can criticize forms of life but also that we should criticize them (and thus ourselves in the conduct of our lives) and that we also always already do this, implicitly or explicitly. To evaluate and to criticize—and this holds especially for the so-called post traditional societies—is part of what it means to share a form of life and (in doing so) to be confronted with other forms of life.
Critique of Forms of Life
Rahel Jaeggi
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