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by Lalabadie 5mo ago
You're now in the last frame of the comic, getting thrown out the window.
- swed420 5mo agoMaybe it's time we adopt/design an economic system that isn't so easily co-opted by counterproductive prisoner's dilemmas.
- nradov 5mo agoWhat would such an economic system look like?
- ian_j_butler 5mo agoThis is actually pretty well-understood if people wanted to do it.. contrary to popular belief it's more about responsible governance than economics and not really a pro/anti capitalism thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#%22Design_principles_illustrated_by_long-enduring_CPR_(Common_Pool_Resource)_institutions%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#%22Design_princi...
- robocat 5mo agoGo ahead and start from the small and grow it bigger: you could become a billionaire if you succeed.
- chowells 5mo agoHahahaha.... What if the goal of an economic system was to support everyone instead of maximizing the upside for winners? Perhaps that's the sort of change necessary for improvement. Perhaps having billionaires is the failure state.
- robocat 5mo ago> goal of an economic system A goal fails - who sets a goal? The keyword is system. An economic system needs something like a Nash equilibrium where defectors are sufficiently discouraged (and cooperators are rewarded as you imply). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium
- satvikpendem 5mo agoEveryone says this but no one seems to have an answer as to what it'd be.