The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend not Break #4: Modeling the Drivers of the Metacrisis”
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Oct 26, 2022 
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Perverse Incentives in Macroeconomics
- The world's macroeconomic system has perverse incentives.
- Profit is often generated at the expense of others or the environment.
Overemphasis on Opportunity, Underemphasis on Risk
- There's a meta-perverse incentive to overemphasize opportunity and underemphasize risk with new technologies.
- This leads to cutting corners on risk assessment for first-mover advantage.
Scale and Kind of Ecological Problems
- Solving large-scale ecological problems differs from past successes like regulating cigarettes or CFCs.
- Energy is fundamental to all industries, making change harder than targeting one sector.