Agreed with Lumifer on “puzzle.” This is why behavioral economics arose in the first place.
There might be a case made that the lawyer doesn’t realize this and is caught in a cached pattern of thinking. However, it could also be the case that the lawyer wants to buy hedons by working in the soup kitchen and getting warm fuzzies from that.
A puzzle?
Economists tend to call a mismatch between their model and reality “a puzzle”. Most other people call that “a failure of the model”.
Agreed with Lumifer on “puzzle.” This is why behavioral economics arose in the first place.
There might be a case made that the lawyer doesn’t realize this and is caught in a cached pattern of thinking. However, it could also be the case that the lawyer wants to buy hedons by working in the soup kitchen and getting warm fuzzies from that.