Maximization vs. Balance

[flwyd]

If someone tried to eat as much food as possible, we wouldn't call that rational. So why do we say that maximizing income is the goal of rational agents?

Comments

[altamira16.livejournal.com]

I always thought that maybe some of them had a point. But it seems the more I read, the more they are looking to apply overly simplistic models to a world that refuses to fit them. And yet this does not stop them from trying over and over again.

[flwyd.livejournal.com]

It's as if they want to be closer to the world than mathematicians, but they aren't willing to be engineers.