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Sarah Constantin 21. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @s_r_constantin
You can start doing this *now*, immediately, wherever you are. Is someone doing something you think is a public service? Praise them or donate to them! Is someone doing something you think is harmful to your community or to humanity? Say so, and withdraw your help!
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Sarah Constantin 21. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @s_r_constantin
Unilaterally choose to, as best you can, make the incentives you send match the things you value. No human incentive system, including the market, can function if people don't *mostly* succeed in doing this.
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Sarah Constantin 21. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @s_r_constantin
The basic idea of communism is "the workers do all the actual work, and they are being exploited by a tiny number of people who contribute nothing and just leech off them. But if the workers do all the work, they *have all the power.* Why do they tolerate exploitation?"
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Sarah Constantin 21. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @s_r_constantin
"The workers are *strong*, not weak; if they are systematically exploited it must be because they are confused, lack confidence in their strength, or lack coordination mechanisms. Therefore, raising their awareness and confidence and helping coordinate will solve their problem."
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Sarah Constantin 21. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @s_r_constantin
I'm not a communist. But my only real disagreement with *this* argument, thus far, is that I think people who do genuine professional, managerial, mercantile, or intellectual work are not parasites but contributors. The "workers" are literally everybody whose work is useful.
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Sarah Constantin 21. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @s_r_constantin
It's easier to *disguise* zero-sum exploitation as positive-sum contribution if you're professional-class -- there's not much doubt that most janitors are really cleaning, while it's more ambiguous whether most bankers are really trading.
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Sarah Constantin 21. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @s_r_constantin
Nobody can know infallibly whether somebody is doing positive-sum contribution or zero-sum exploitation. People will have different opinions. This is fine.
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Sarah Constantin 21. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @s_r_constantin
Or, at any rate, we have to accept it because it's inevitable. People aren't clones or oracles. Everybody acting on their best judgment (informed by communication with others) is the best humans can possibly do.
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Sarah Constantin 21. ruj
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I don't necessarily believe that there is a well-defined group called "exploiters", responsible for most social ills, that the majority of people can recognize and can coordinate to keep out.
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Sarah Constantin 21. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @s_r_constantin
What I believe is that if a significant fraction of people -- including many of the most productive and morally idealistic -- are deluded into thinking that they shouldn't or can't judge people's character & incentivize them accordingly, we're underperforming.
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Sarah Constantin
Paul Graham's idea of a "good person" may be quite different from Justin Murphy's. But both of them would be wrong to suppress their impulses to associate with good people and disassociate with bad people.
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Sarah Constantin 21. ruj
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To be clear, I don’t mean “cancel everyone who has flaws and give no second chances.” Not at all. I mean *proportional* incentives; be more willing to help people the more helpful/constructive you think they are on net.
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Sarah Constantin 21. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @s_r_constantin
And “just say no” to extortion. Don’t help people because they threaten to harm you otherwise.
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ЬᏂ​au​ϮᏂ 21. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @s_r_constantin
What if middle management is rent-seeking but non-managerial employees are too specialized to form small groups? What if other megacorps & regulators & contract complexity would keep those fragments from working?
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ЬᏂ​au​ϮᏂ 21. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @s_r_constantin
You could ask why corporations have value, why that isn't captured by employees. One answer is, unequal pay makes less-paid workers apathetic, so pay within groups is flatted and corporations take the surplus.
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