My intuitions on economics/policy and whatever are strongly influenced by my understanding of evolution, in that I have this idea that a thriving nation should have a lot in common with a thriving body, and share the principles the body used to get to where it is and survive.
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It is in the individuals own self interest to pursue prosocial things sometimes, but not always. Thus, I think a thriving nation must necessarily hold ongoing tension or conflict, on some level (though not all) This is a fundamental part of a thriving system.
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So when people talk about utopias as totally peaceful or refer to struggle as inherently bad, it just doesn't jive with me. It is good that an inefficient business should fail. It hurts, but it is good.
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I also distrust human ability to manually fix issues. The economy is stupidly complex, and fucking with one thing will have ripple effects. It doesn't matter how elegant and complicated a plan we can design, the natural systems that develop from small scale rules will be better.
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So instead of top-down organization, I prefer policies that allow bottom-up self direction, that treat the system like a body, and that views competition and the pain that results as not inherently bad. THAT BEING SAID
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There's one thing I don't understand - do we see top down self modification in bodies? Why am I treating self modification (economic policies) as not organic? It seems like there's a spectrum of bottom up natural to top down unnatural and idk where I'm drawing the line
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Not bad intuition in that it concurs with the basic principles of main stream economics since Adam Smith. The trick is to find a framework in which you can identify circumstances where following individual self-interest leads to socially inefficient ( or bad) outcomes.
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