All 5 Uses of
inevitable
in
Freakonomics
- For every clever person who goes to the trouble of creating an incentive scheme, there is an army of people, clever and otherwise, who will inevitably spend even more time trying to beat it.†
p. 21.6inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
- No matter how the data are sliced, they inevitably suggest one thing: it is hard to argue that sumo wrestling isn't rigged.†
p. 42.7 *
- The practitioners of such acts, especially in the realm of high finance, inevitably offer this defense: "Everybody else was doing it."†
p. 66.4
- The point here is not that real-estate agents are bad people, but that they simply are people—and people inevitably respond to incentives.†
p. 73.3
- To claim that legalized abortion resulted in a massive drop in crime will inevitably lead to explosive moral reactions.†
p. 210.2
Definition:
certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)