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@Aella_Girl
My ideal system (and one I'd like to move towards, politically), is where the incentive structure of the system is such that the natural incentives you have to fill your own needs, *also* results in others getting their needs met, as naturally and organically as possible.
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@Aella_Girl
I think this system probably isn't one we can design by thinking really hard. Like an organic system, it's unique, it's not a perfect pattern, and really, really complex. Think less "like chess" and more "like a digestive system."
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@Aella_Girl
This also means the system can be described more by emergent pattern, less by rules, which means it's more difficult for small numbers of people to control, and for anybody to fully understand. This is maybe the key shift I'd love to see happen in public thought:
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@Aella_Girl
That a good system is something that arises outside of our attempt to control it. So how do we allow this extremely complex, organic system to arise? Well the basic guideline, heavily simplified, is something like "Don't control anyone but yourself."
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