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Model Inadequacy in Financial Planning
A recent graduate is planning their finances for the year. They decide to work very long hours for the first six months to save a large sum of money, which they will then use to supplement their income in the last six months while they work part-time and pursue a personal project. Explain why a basic aggregate work-leisure model, which only considers total annual work hours and total annual consumption, would fail to capture the nuance of this individual's decision-making process.
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