Duncan Watts

our future state of happiness correctly, and maybe never bought the lottery ticket. Rather than questioning our ability to make predictions about our future happiness, therefore, we simply conclude that we missed something important—a mistake we surely won’t make again.

thought they should have been paid thirteen cents. In other words, no matter what they were actually paid—and remember that some of them were getting paid ten times as much as others—everyone thought they had been underpaid

But as the article itself concedes, the history of previous attempts to “fix” politics has been disappointing.27