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Yea, it's perfectly intellectually consistent to say "I'll do it if you do it too"
by curiousllama 5y ago
Yea, it's perfectly intellectually consistent to say "I'll do it if you do it too"
- davidw 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_game
- the_optimist 5y agoThere is no basis for believing that the payoff for coordination is elevated. If anything the opposite: we see that more centralized decision-making introduces larger deadweight losses. See US-Afghanistan, as enabled by the tax base, as an example.
- curiousllama 5y ago> There is no basis for believing that the payoff for coordination is elevated Libraries, fire stations, universal K-12 education? Certainly imperfect, but def benefit from coordination. Health care too - a lack of universal coordination makes life difficult. On the private sector side, many companies are great examples of coordination payoffs (I trade entrepreneurial risk/reward for consistent benefits).
- the_optimist 5y agoBut it is the height of hypocrisy to force other people to do things that neither they nor you would do in isolation. You’re not preventing a prisoner’s dilemma here because the proposed tax contribution is strictly monotonic with or without individual participation.