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Do bad people eventually get what they deserve? Or is that just empty consolation? Are wrongful acts committed only by bad people? Or could the situation be more complex than that?   Research shows that the matter is far more complicated than assumed, and that displaying such behaviors is almost part of human nature itself.

At the end of a tiring day, you come home alone (or with your spouse/partner). You don’t even have the energy to set the table, let alone prepare dinner. Around your home, there are three restaurants that fit your budget and standards and deliver to your door. One is a Chinese restaurant with salty and

The excessive optimism that began in the market after the dot-com crash of 2000, starting around 2002, led to a blindness—a state of mind they later found difficult to explain—and an acceptance that “things will continue as they are” among the individuals and institutions supposed to control the system in the world’s financial center and

There are three important decisions people make in their lives. These are the answers to the questions “Where will I live?”, “What will I do?”, and “Who will I do it with?” Until a century ago, making these decisions was easy for the vast majority of people. People lived where they were born, men followed

Whether we realize it or not, we mentally live in two different worlds. In one of these worlds, social norms dominate, and in the other, market norms (1). Imagine a scenario in your mind, in which two young men, around thirty years old, work for the same company. The young man invites his colleague to

The responsibilities of daily life and the necessity to live by constantly catching up with something in order to raise the standard of living disconnect people from their essence and reduce the quality of life. However, everyone who has reached their thirties knows that money can buy books but not information; it can buy sex

There are impossible expectations from the state in every segment of society, both to lower the retirement age, to increase pensions and to increase support for the poor. In the hyperinflation process we are going through, low-income people, who make up more than half of the population, are living in great distress despite the limited

After the 1980s, Turkey came under the influence of American culture and in a sense became culturally Americanized. It broke away from the accumulation of the Ottoman Empire that dominated three continents for centuries, and from its culture that integrated with universal values ​​and enriched with minorities during the Republican period. It shifted from accumulating

The technical superiority of the film is a separate subject of expertise and writing, but the fact that the shooting was done with a single camera and without interruption for each section strengthened its effect by making the audience a direct witness to what was happening. However, I would like to point out that 13