Money Illusion

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Pratyush Pillai

Pratyush Pillai

Using Behaviour Design to find the simplest ways to solve gargantuan problems

发布日期: 2023年9月5日

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Even though we know about inflation, we tend to underestimate its effects.

We somehow assume that money will have the same purchasing power for longer than it actually does.

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