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Adaptive Preferences and the Problem of Adaptive Injustice

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Philosopher Jon Elster observed that in some of Aesop's fables, the fox who cannot reach the grapes decides they are sour—a perfect metaphor for how people may downgrade what they cannot have. This 'sour grapes' mechanism means that people living under oppression may develop preferences that actually support their own subordination.

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We usually think that if someone says they are happy with their lot, they are free. But what if the bars of the cage have become so familiar that they no longer think of them as bars?

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