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Society wide utility. Every time resources are diverted to someone who uses them unproductively we lose the opportunity to use them productively.
by wang_li 9y ago
Society wide utility. Every time resources are diverted to someone who uses them unproductively we lose the opportunity to use them productively.
- ddingus 9y agoNo. That assumes perfect information and perfect availability. We do not, nor cannot actualize those things. We don't even need to. People, society are not machines. There are costs, risks, balances to be made. And of course, productive from whose point of view? I value helping people far more than I do actualizing peak efficiency, and I do that because the human costs are generally undesirable.