Hogwarts on the Tip of the Tongue

"... meaningless arguments?"

Grindelwald shook his brow and repeated a subconscious sentence.

On the other side, Dumbledore also looked at Elena with great interest, and there was a trace of inquiry in his eyes.

"Yeah, nothing more than a paradox variant of result justice and procedural justice. This thing is not a rare thing in the non-magic world, it can only be said that you have too little knowledge of Muggle's law and philosophy."

Elena inserted the soft-shell crab legs in the hand next to the campfire, shrugged, and replied casually.

Needless to say, both Dumbledore and Grindelwald hope to influence and change the world through their own words and deeds, but the two have completely different definitions of logical cause and effect, and focus.

If Dumbledore is a staunch guardian of reforms and respects moderate, orderly, and orderly social progress; then Grindelwald is an absolute pioneer of revolution, and anything that can achieve results in justice is a valuable sacrifice, and vice versa It is all a waste of human social resources.

As in the debates in the non-magic world for countless years, in the eyes of most people, these two problems are a pair of non-reciprocal, totally irreconcilable twin paradoxes ...

"You mean, this is a paradox that can't get an answer, right?"

Dumbledore smiled slightly, looked at Elena gently, and nodded thoughtfully.

"It's right to say that, sometimes people will want to follow the asylum of order, and when order becomes injustice itself, people will seek true fairness, so say ..."

"So why can't you find a balance that can satisfy both?"

Elena sighed and turned to look at Dumbledore, asking in a calm tone.

"If a thing can be carried out in an orderly manner and achieve the desired result, wouldn't it satisfy the demands of these two views at the same time? Is there anything that we can't sit down and talk about? Not a beast. "

"You are still too naive, boy."

Grindelwald grinned, touched Elena's hair, and shook her head.

"In reality, you will never be as perfect as you think. Most of the time you will have to face choices, either compromise in the process or compromise in the results-things that are all happy, only exist in the imagination of theory . "

"Muggles do the multiple choice questions ..."

Elena raised her mouth slightly, pulled out her wand and poked towards the campfire in front of her, and a fire snake jumped high.

"We are wizards. Besides-is it not the meaning of magic that turns imagination into reality?"

"Huh?" Grindelwald frowned, confused.

"Everything in this world, magic, wealth, rights, food ... are all valuable, and this means that as long as reasonable consultation and cooperation are conducted, a balance can be found that meets the value needs of both parties of the transaction."

Elena glanced at Grindelwald, and then at Dumbledore, who was also puzzled, and smiled slightly.

"Take a very simple example, potatoes, food, magic, students."

"In my opinion, most of the contradictions are ultimately due to the lack of resources-this resource may be wealth, food, spouse ... or even an invisible existence such as honor, status, lifespan."

"Whether it is the magic world, or the non-magic world; whether it is human society, or the natural biosphere; however, all existence living in this world is more or less bound by [equivalent exchange]."

"But! The existence of magic can completely overcome the actual equivalent exchange shackles and create a high premium."

"In other words ..."

Elena said with a sweet smile, while handing two baked crunchy soft-shell crab legs to the hands of the two old men.

"With the help of magic, we can give anyone a generous bargaining chip that is hard to refuse."

In game theory, there is an important concept called Pareto Optimality, which is the ideal economic distribution form that almost all graduate students of economics will come into contact with. No exception.

The so-called Pareto Optimality (ParetoOptimality) refers to an ideal state of resource allocation.

That is, assuming the inherent group of people and allocable resources, in the change from one distribution state to another state, at least one person becomes better under the premise of not making any person's situation worse, in the absolute ideal In the model, it will realize an extremely fair and most efficient social cooperation distribution system.

However, in actual situations, it is difficult for people to make the other party better out of thin air without harming the interests of either party-under a sufficiently large sample collection, there will always be related parties who bear the exploited character of.

unless……

"Under the premise of a sufficient premium, a win-win result will be formed at the beginning of all events, and then regress according to this result, replacing the possible damage to the interests, or the sacrifice link, with magic."

Elena picked up a clean crab leg and drew lines and circles on the loose dirt.

As a high-level economics student, it is not too difficult to explain the most basic theoretical model to two old wizards. Even without too much basic theory, combined with graphics and cases, it can be roughly explained .

"This can be exemplified by the Gryffindor Academy ... If in the normal non-magic world trading market, only the" base currency "Gryffindor that grows potatoes is equivalent to being exploited at the bottom Labor. But because magic can produce a burst of potato production in a short time, they have become an advantage. "

"However, as far as I know, since the new rules were issued, Gryffindor Academy has no advantage ..."

Dumbledore pushed the glasses with his left hand, interrupting with a bit of confusion.

"That's because they lack the most important way of thinking."

Elena spread her hand and turned to look at Dumbledore, explaining without thinking.

"The Gryffindor with the largest potato reserves and productivity can always obtain the right to speak by reducing and expanding the circulation of potatoes in the market-this is also the most powerful weapon I have left for them. Similarly, in addition, The three houses also have their own advantages, all of which are controlled by the introduction of the variable of magic. "

"In fact, Professor Dumbledore, you should be the clearest. The trading premium caused by magic is not lying quietly in the potato warehouse under the castle now, waiting for our next plan to use it? Of course, the potato model is just the simplest example, the reality will be hundreds of times more complicated than this. "

"but……"

Dumbledore frowned, rubbing his temples hard.

Although Elena said some very simple sentences, but I don't know why. When he put it together, he always felt that his forehead was a bit painful. This was a strange idea he had never seen before.

"do not worry……"

Elena's eyes gradually brightened, her head wagging proudly, and the crab legs in her hand flicked on the ground.

"Next, I will simply break it down for you. This can actually be shown with a very simple and intuitive quantitative economics model. First, we first set the demand group into several sets ..."

"Wait! Stop!"

Before Elena finished speaking, Grindelwald interrupted suddenly.

"Eh?" Elena looked at the old man in front of her and crooked her head pretty cutely. "That, Grandpa, do you not understand what I said before? I can talk again."

"This is not something that is not understandable, this is, uh ..."

Grindelwald glanced at the large array of formulas and lines on the ground like a spell pattern, took a deep breath, and tried to get rid of the faint sense of vertigo that haunted his mind.

"I believe your statement has some truth. Indeed, if you use magic flexibly, you can indeed avoid many of the disputes and sacrifices we have encountered, but there is one thing you have not considered!"

"Which point?"

"All of this needs to be built on effective communication."

Grindelwald drew a circle in the air, looking at Elena with a scrutiny.

"Perhaps according to your opinion, after negotiation and mutual understanding, the two parties who disagree can always reach a balance point somewhere, but you must first let them sit down and discuss together calmly ..."

"Yes, it's like you're having a hard time having Death Eaters and Ministry of Magic officials sit down together and discuss ways to resolve conflicts. Many times, if you can really communicate, there will be no conflicts."

Dumbledore also nodded in agreement, a sigh of expression on his face.

Whether it is Dumbledore or Grindelwald, it is not that such a way has not been thought of.

Even if there is no unpredictable premium transaction, or what is the law of Par, people will think of solving problems by means of communication-due to the way, whether success or not is left aside, many times even communication cannot be done .

Elena glanced at Grindelwald and Dumbledore ~ ​​www.wuxiaspot.com ~ pouted, and answered quite easily.

"You said this problem, it is no longer a problem now. Don't forget, I am now in a different environment from the two of you at that time, different times have different solutions.

"Ok?"

"I don't see any difference in people."

The two old wizards glanced at each other, and the doubts in their eyes became more apparent.

"It's simple. Isn't this an obvious thing?"

The little dull hair above Elena's head shook with pride, and said straightforwardly.

"I have your back now!"

Dumbledore: ...

Grindelwald: ...

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