temptations are just illusions/tricks

start @ 18:08；「金句」@ 20:22

So one thing we observed in the data is that it looked like, in terms of ... The gang leader always got paid, OK? No matter how bad it was economically, he always got himself paid.

So we had some theories related to cash flow, and lack of access to capital markets, and things like that. But then we asked the gang member, "Well, why is it you always get paid, and your workers don't always get paid?"

His response is, "You got all these niggers below you who want your job, you dig? If you start taking losses, they see you as weak and ****."

And I thought about it, and I said, "CEOs often pay themselves million-dollar bonuses, even when companies are losing a lot of money. And it never would really occur to an economist that this idea of 'weak and ****' could really be important." But maybe -- maybe "weak and ****" -- maybe "weak and ****" is an important hypothesis that needs more analysis.

sometimes things are just easier said than done.

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