[derdi]

> the train that leaves first gets there first

I understand this is what motivates people, and I also understand that, when asked, they would claim that this is in their rational self-interest. As I also wrote elsewhere, I tend to disagree or at least question this assumption in general. Are you really in that much of a hurry? If you have a very hard deadline, wouldn't it have been in your rational self-interest to leave home five minutes earlier? etc.