nathan_compton

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   by nathan_compton 7y ago

   I'm not here to rag on good cost benefit analysis. Obviously resources are finite and we need to, both individually, and as a species or a moral collective or whatever, make somewhat rational use of the resources. What I am trying, but
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   by nathan_compton 7y ago

   This isn't really the implication of evolutionary theory. We need to do enough cost-benefit analysis to reproduce most of the time and (more broadly speaking) so that our genes, which may be in other organisms, reproduce. Some of that
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   by nathan_compton 7y ago

   I think you are conflating two distinct things, one of which is an incontrovertible reality and the other not. Its certainly the case that in a sense we are always making choices which you could apply a cost benefit analysis to (although an
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   by nathan_compton 7y ago

   To some extent what you describe is paradigmatic - the product of a particular set of circumstances (one might even say an ideology , if they were of that frame of mind). Its not inherent to the human condition. Imagine, either as a practi
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   by nathan_compton 7y ago

   Not one wants to live in a society where your every moment must be dominated by one cost-benefit analysis or another. There is an assumption, I would argue, in the everyday notion that society exists for the common good, that our lives not
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   by nathan_compton 7y ago

   I think the gastropod is basically on point. The democrats aren't beacons of virtue or rationality by any stretch of the imagination, but its a strange kind of self-imposed blindness to pretend the two political parties are playing the
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   by nathan_compton 7y ago

   But by all means, lets keep cutting taxes and letting rich people hide their money wherever. Its not at all possible that this kind of abuse is in part caused by understaffing and a general disregard in financial terms for the value of publ
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   by nathan_compton 7y ago

   I don't want to be dismissive but this is a pile of obvious statements made to seem more compelling than they are, weird mixed metaphors, and tenuous conclusions clearly related (more or less) to the author's own particular views
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   by nathan_compton 7y ago

   The subtext of every article like this is "How to motivate people (without paying them more or giving them equity)." In many, perhaps most, situations, people are working to build things they don't own. That is the context. A