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The authors of the book are an economist and a software developer... I am not convinced they have any particular insight into how actual human minds work.

Furthermore, one of the authors of the book also authored this blog post, which I hesitate to summarize, but yeesh: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/04/two-types-of-envy.html



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