Fact that interest in religion declines as societies get rich suggests main gain from religion is to help deal with stressful situations that happen a lot more to the poor.
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So TL;DR when economists say "at the margin" they mean derivative of some function?
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this is maybe, yes, my view, but
@robinhanson is an economist, and I'm just a hobo farmer LARPing on the internet, so I bow to Robin's definition (if he offers one) - Show replies
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If we discuss how much food people buy, we might find that when salaries go from $60k to $70k the amount of deserts ordered at restaurants increases. This can not necessarily be generalized to a theory that the PRIMARY thing that people want from food is desert, or that >>
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the PRIMARY thing people buy with money is food. ...but "people spend extra money buying sugar" may be 100% true at the margin that we're studying.
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