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Social engineering seems to be a fragile idea because humans are amazing at optimizing in favor of their own interests. Taxes as a form of revenue seem to work
by disposekinetics 6y ago
Social engineering seems to be a fragile idea because humans are amazing at optimizing in favor of their own interests. Taxes as a form of revenue seem to work better than taxes as a force for manipulation.
- CountSessine 6y agoTaxes work beautifully as an incentive by changing people's utility gradient. "Don't smoke if you want to raise your utility!" "Don't drive a gas-burning car if you want to raise your utility!" I suspect that taxes work less well when the whole point is to lower people's utility. "Lower your utility or we'll do it for you!"