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You definitely get more bang for your buck spending on yourself vs trying to change society.
by chillacy 8y ago
You definitely get more bang for your buck spending on yourself vs trying to change society.
- landryraccoon 8y agoIt has to be the case that if everyone agrees to spend on something together you get much more bang for the buck than if everyone is out for themselves. That’s the whole reason why tribes outcompete individuals, cities outcompeted tribes and nation states outcompeted cities. At the extreme, if a small band forms an army, it doesn’t matter how well armed and fortified a single family is; the army is taking them down.
- praptak 8y agoThat is true if you play within the tragedy of the commons scenario instead of trying to break out of it.
- chillacy 8y agoCorrect, if everyone in society didn't graze the metaphorical commons, then your happiness would be even higher still.
- nannotequalnan 8y agoagree completely, although that's kind of the point. the problem is that the tech elite are going for most bang for the buck (ie. looking out for no 1) instead of trying to solve the mess that they, in part, created