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I volunteer at a suicide hotline. To judge from what they say, the people who call there aren't interested in economics, they're in pain.


Not to belittle suicidal people's feelings, but pain is an economic factor when economics is treated in the broad sense. People contemplating sucide feel that any potential joys of living are not worth the pain that they are experiencing. That is an economic decision, whether the decision maker is aware of it or not.

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