Rory Sutherland
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Or you turn up late and someone like, assuming you're not a psycho because you're Canadian.
So, you know, that's probably my default.
Relatively low.
We're too polite.
You're too polite.
Exactly.
Yes.
It'd be too tiring to be a psychopath in Canada, wouldn't it?
Super me.
I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have been here.
My fault.
I got in the way of your suit.
The psychopath will lose his rag and can't control this.
And likewise, if you turn up late, there's a chance they'll go, look, I've been sitting on my own like an idiot for 15 minutes.
Whereas you and I would go, oh, I know, I only just got here myself.
The traffic's terrible.
We don't fully know, you see, the value of what is going on
in using a personal quality as a proxy for a decision which is simply too complicated to legalize or to reduce to numbers.
Also, it is, I'll completely agree, in economic terms, it's suboptimal.