# As a Progressive, I am throwing in the towel

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-progressive-i-am-throwing-in-the-towel/924912 "2020-11-06T18:31:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-progressive-i-am-throwing-in-the-towel/924912/191 "2020-12-06T06:37:29Z")

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> [@Kimstu](#):
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> I just think you’re unnecessarily painting yourself into a corner if you try to claim that only financial benefits constitute an adequate motive for anybody to throw themselves into long periods of all-consuming devotion to work.

This is the problem with the Chicago school of economics, another failed ideology that ignores human nature, and is still mostly dominant today, unfortunately.

They imagine that people are only motivated by profit, and always act rationally in making financial decisions.

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