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I agree, I also think it’s more like delayed gratification. Good incentives are for good people bad incentives are for fools. The further you can push back sho
by samirillian 2mo ago
I agree,
I also think it’s more like delayed gratification. Good incentives are for good people bad incentives are for fools. The further you can push back short-term incentives in favor of long-term, the better your life will be. Like we all “know” that love is better than coffee but in the morning many of us would/do choose coffee. Food, drugs, porn all short-term pleasures are “less good” than prosperity, but we often choose the quick dopamine hit over the long, difficult road
- fittingopposite 2mo agoCurious, what do you mean with prosperity in this context?
- samirillian 2mo agoI mean, tautologically, I guess all the good parts of prosperity and none of the bad. Not a proof of correctness but a list: 1. Wealth gotten by one’s own work, or by wise management 2. A lender never a borrower 3. Desires generally satisfied 4. Leaving an inheritance for children/future generations I tend to think of the Kulaks that Trotsky wanted to work with but that Stalin sent to Siberia