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I think you are right about leaving something to our children. It's a very natural human (mammal!) instinct, but there are a lot of middle ground between don't
by RobertoG 9y ago
I think you are right about leaving something to our children. It's a very natural human (mammal!) instinct, but there are a lot of middle ground between don't leave anything and leave them an empire.
About merit, I think I know about merit. If you take the public transport at 5:30 in the morning you will see a lot of people that go to work for years for a ridiculous small pay and, that if they stopped doing that, society as we know would stop. That, I think, have a lot of merit.
On the other hand, in any standard corporation, you can find people with huge wages, with company car, that never pay a lunch because they put in the expenses account and that employ its time in political movements to try to go up in the ladder.
Of course, if you think that markets give everyone whatever they deserve, or you have not been in the public transport at 5:30, then, what I'm saying doesn't make any sense.
- kofejnik 9y agobasically, your argument is that you know better than the market. Let me assure you, this isn't so. Source: grew up in the USSR.
- RobertoG 9y agoMarkets are optimization processes, so, very powerful tools. Leaving the metric to optimize to the optimization process doesn't look a good idea, the same way it's not a good idea to leave the thermostat to choose the temperature. In my experience, the only people that think that the thermostat it's who should choose the temperature, it's the people that feels very comfortable with the current one and don't care about the comfort of the others in the house. Or, maybe, also the people that grew up in a house without thermostat and thinks, correctly, that anything is better.
- TheDongIsYou 9y agoI really like your analogy, but what did you mean by "anything is better"?
- RobertoG 9y agoYeah, sorry, it was not well done. I mean, anything is better than a house without a thermostat, even a house where the thermostat is the boss.