"Not everyone can be an activist"

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > But aren't you sort of throwing away the social connection
>>  part, as above,
>>  when you focus on "minimizing costs"?  Sure, there are costs
>>  in all that we
>>  do, but when it comes to social connections, I'm not so
>>  convinced that
>>  "costs" are the first considerations that come to mind.  Of
>>  course, both
>>  models are inadequate, but it may be more appropriate to view social
>>  connections as something that affects "utility" (well-being,
>  > happiness)...for modelling purposes that is.
>
>I am not throwing away social connections.  I simply argue that 
>social connections minimize transaction costs. See:
>
>Mark Granovetter, 1985, Economic Action and Social Structure: The 
>Problem of Embeddedness, American Journal of Sociology, 91:481-510.
>
>In other words, I do not want to throw away a rat choice model of 
>human behavior, as many sociologists and social comentators do - I 
>simply want to detsch it from the linear regression thinking and add 
>more social/cognitive elements to it.
>
>Wojek

Isn't it "rational" -- if you have to put it that way -- to choose 
happiness, e.g., the pleasure of hanging out and doing something 
meaningful with friends -- unless you are a Schopenhauerian.  :->
-- 
Yoshie

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