Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Bend Not Break Part 5: Criteria and Categories for Response" | The Great Simplification #50
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Is There a Perverse Incentive to Do the Thing?
The capitalistic exponential system has backloaded some of those costs that are second, third order effects from our decisions and our products. So there's a perverse incentive, not just a psychological bias. There's also a game theoretic perverse incentive to do that thing. It's also true that making a tech that produces a certain benefit is epistemologically easier than preventing all of the harms from doing so. And then the other thing is that many of the problems only occur through very large scale cumulative action but the individual action produces my benefit.
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