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> Talk about misaligned incentives! > [...] > Users successfully coupling up are effectively "lost" for the platform that facilitated it. It works the same in
by stared 7y ago
> Talk about misaligned incentives!
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> Users successfully coupling up are effectively "lost" for the platform that facilitated it.
It works the same in healthcare. If we are cured once for good, they charge us once. If there are good prophylactics and we stay healthy - even worse.
Yet, somehow the system works, to a certain degree. (Why? I don't know. Maybe there is more stigma with destroying someone's health for monetary gain.)
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Maybe there should be a service, for which we pay ONLY during times when we are healthy (or have happy romantic/sexual life)? In that way, the incentives would be aligned.
Any ideas of how to do so?
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As one remark: a lifelong relationship is not the only goal of dating. Some people look for a short-term, or even an ONS. Also, if a relationship goes bad it is better when it does not stays for a lifetime (in the worst-case scenario, when one's life ends with a murder, or - suicide).
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago> Yet, somehow the system works, to a certain degree. (Why? I don't know.) Well for starters, there is still some level of competition in the pharma industry. If you're trying to make a better version of a competitor's product, changing "It makes X go away for 2 weeks" to "It cures X" is a good strategy. Secondly, it's not as though we can program treatments to act in exact accordance with executive whims. We use what works. (To be clear, none of this is to say there isn't a problem. I am listing reasons the situations is not as disastrous as it theoretically could be.)