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WiM042 - The Geoffrey Miller Series | Episode 4 | Instincts and Incentives

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The Incentives All the Way Down

A lot of the same kind of game theory and economic and political issues about incentives also apply within marriages and within even the most intimate, rigt relationships. A really calls into question the way we've put ourselves together under this banner of democracy, which i st don't think it works long term. We end up implicitly rewarding partners for behaviours we don't actually want run and punishing a behaviours that we do actually want. Keep u a great fire wall between m my inner life and what i tell my my female partner. That's a simple example, but that's great advice. Attentiond like, what incentive structures are you creating in your relationship?

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