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Or like in auctions where I think it's pretty well known that one reason for irrationality in auctions is just the pleasure of winning, that you feel that you
bested someone else. Now, if you think that, you're going to pay too much for the tchotchke on eBay.
But it's sort of hard to gainsay whether the pleasure of winning and avoiding the agony of defeat, if you frame it in those terms, is worth paying for.
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