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EP 162 Max Borders on Decentralism

The Jim Rutt Show

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Is Your Discount Rate Really Important?

People's propensity for addictive behavior, as loht to do with their discount rate. If your brain is discounting the future a hundred % a day, then, shit, youknow, do an hairwhat every day actually makes economic sense within your own brain. You can't move it all the way, but you can move it some and enough to get a lot of people off of what otherwise seem like pathological addictions. And so we have to be very careful in thinking about what kind of society we want to have.

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