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I think to some extent, we're just not naturally wired to think of meta-risk. We have innate biases against negative outcomes, but since risks—or surefire outco

I think to some extent, we're just not naturally wired to think of meta-risk. We have innate biases against negative outcomes, but since risks—or surefire outcomes, like in Scott's post—are more abstract, we just don't naturally think about them. I think you're right though, we have to start teaching people that not taking a small risk can have a much larger impact.

makerdiety 3y ago
To have a labor market that demands people who can perceive abstract issues and interconnected system failures requires, in the first place, a prerequisite population that has the cognitive ability to conceive big picture models which include risk contemplation as a decisive factor in organizational success. These intelligent representatives will not be working for free without indoctrination projects like the lifelong instilling of patriotism. So, realistically, any executive officer who can meet the requirements for a demanding large scale management labor will be selective in what administration he serves. Leaving those unfortunate enterprises that can't satisfy natural requirements left to fend for themselves with whatever unsustainable capabilities they can acquire or start up with. All this is broad, globally occurring competition for talent, labor, and resources and it provides an explanation for why things are the way they are. This comprehension on business management can lead to the conclusion that socialist visions will always have capitalist characteristics associated with their attempted executions. So it seems there's an extensive and influential capitalism that exists somewhere in the world, right now. The only way for socialist goals to prosper is to remove that wide-reaching capitalism. So just educating people about risk might actually, ironically and funnily, be an unproductive decision and indicative of a much more interesting problem.

makerdiety 3y ago

To have a labor market that demands people who can perceive abstract issues and interconnected system failures requires, in the first place, a prerequisite population that has the cognitive ability to conceive big picture models which include risk contemplation as a decisive factor in organizational success. These intelligent representatives will not be working for free without indoctrination projects like the lifelong instilling of patriotism. So, realistically, any executive officer who can meet the requirements for a demanding large scale management labor will be selective in what administration he serves. Leaving those unfortunate enterprises that can't satisfy natural requirements left to fend for themselves with whatever unsustainable capabilities they can acquire or start up with. All this is broad, globally occurring competition for talent, labor, and resources and it provides an explanation for why things are the way they are. This comprehension on business management can lead to the conclusion that socialist visions will always have capitalist characteristics associated with their attempted executions. So it seems there's an extensive and influential capitalism that exists somewhere in the world, right now. The only way for socialist goals to prosper is to remove that wide-reaching capitalism. So just educating people about risk might actually, ironically and funnily, be an unproductive decision and indicative of a much more interesting problem.