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if we insist on everybody getting the same share, no matter what, then the smart one doesnt have incentive to make progress and the lazy one simply stops trying
by linhchi 11y ago
if we insist on everybody getting the same share, no matter what, then the smart one doesnt have incentive to make progress and the lazy one simply stops trying. that'd be disaster (isnt that communism?)
the good gene is like a natural lottery. do you insist your neighbor to share his lottery money with you because he does nothing to get that money? because he's lucky, he may share with you 10%, but never share 50-50
- tankenmate 11y agoActually you'll find there are cultures around the globe where you are expected to share more than 50% if you receive a windfall... The less than 50% thing is very much a western world phenomenon; and a US one in particular.
- linhchi 11y agoyeah, but in tribes or backward society, with agriculture or hunter-gatherer .. it's kinda hard to compare between these two kinds of society, people deal with very different things everyday
- tankenmate 11y agoYou'll find that gift cultures exist today that have long since stopped being agrarian; the Philippines and Thailand come to mind. In the big cities the gift culture is still alive and well. It is quite a different culture to the predominately protestant individualistic society that is America though.[0] [0] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/31914331_J._Henrich__R._Boyd__S._Bowles__C._Camerer__E._Fehr__H._Gintis_%28eds.%29_Foundations_of_Human_Sociality_Economic_Experiment http://www.researchgate.net/publication/31914331_J._Henrich_...