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There is an excellent profit motive, it is just not as directly obvious as it is mostly realised in money not spent and humans seem notoriously bad at preferrin
by inflatableDodo 8y ago
There is an excellent profit motive, it is just not as directly obvious as it is mostly realised in money not spent and humans seem notoriously bad at preferring small gains over large savings.
- wilg 8y agoCan you clarify the profit motive you're referring to?
- inflatableDodo 8y agoNot doing it incurs a fairly large cost across many areas of the economy. Time has to be spent by people faffing around with this nonsense that creates no wealth economically and this essentially creates an overall drag on profitability across most of the economy, parasitically favouring only small sectors such as legal services. The trouble is, this is a group profit motive and people seem to think of profit motive mostly from an individualistic and zero-sum perspective.
- swsieber 8y agoThere's a reason people only think of it from an individual and zero-sum perspective - that's the aspect that generally effects changes/results.
- inflatableDodo 8y agoI think you may have that back to front.
- swsieber 8y agoSorry - I think the tragedy of the commons would like to disagree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons