Secondly, we mean that a person not acting in their own best interests.

其次，我们认为人们并没有遵循利益最大化原则行事。

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There goals have nothing to do with your own best interests, because the ego is not you.

这些目标与你自己的最大利益互不相干，因为小我并不是你。

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What is the use of setting up good incentives, if people do not follow their own best interests?

如果人们不顺应自身的最佳利益，设置完美的激励有什么用呢？

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"Obama said privately and repeatedly, "Israel doesn't know what its own best interests are.

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Which led me to a surprising discovery: I spend considerable energy working against my own best interests.

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Farthest away are corporations, politicians, and other entities that we generally believe put their own best interests ahead of ours.

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