This is pretty near the pinnacle of my profession, there is not much above playing for your country.

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The reason I find it shocking is that because if it is true my profession (I am a CPA) is pointlessly torturing a generation of young professionals.

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To take my nominal, mostly abandoned profession of mechanical engineering, much of the intelligence is now in CAD tools.

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My point here is that the subject is just completely ignored by the economics profession, and that this can be explained largely by the existence of bias.

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