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TIL poor people can't pollute, so their market segment shouldn't be incentivized to cut pollution. TIL that US car companies won't make smaller cars in the fac
by morepedantic 1y ago
TIL poor people can't pollute, so their market segment shouldn't be incentivized to cut pollution.
TIL that US car companies won't make smaller cars in the face of different regulations, even though they made larger cars in response to current regulations.
The only way to avoid perversions is to tax the problem directly. The market will adjust to all proxies in unintended and harmful ways.
- parineum 1y agoA disincentive on a thing you don't want makes people choose another thing that you may or may not want. The only way to avoid perversions is to incentivize the things you want. Taxing cigarettes led to vaping. Maybe less bad but still a nuisance.
- morepedantic 1y agoAre you agreeing with me, or did you drop a negative twice?
- parineum 1y agoYou're statement is not true. Disincentives don't make people make good choices, they make them make different choices. Incentives guide people to make a specific choice.
- morepedantic 1y agoIt is the role of a central planner to pick a particular outcome, and it's also the worst strategy of the modern era. Everything which is not forbidden is allowed. Your belief that you should make the positive choice on behalf of others is the most dangerous philosophy of the 20th century.