"Our culture should spend less effort on discouraging and penalizing harm and more effort on cultivating and rewarding awesomeness"
- strongly agree38.1%
- slightly agree40.9%
- slightly disagree14.2%
- strongly disagree6.7%
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Eh, really depends how the culture is meant to incentivize goodness. If that comes through trying to anticipate the good things, that’s like a planned economy of goodness and I don’t think it works as well as an organic one.
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Markets already reward a lot of awesomeness. We lack penalizing harm (government/elite corruption/rent-seeking, media propaganda, etc.)
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Depends a bit on what you mean by "our culture", but if you mean American society/institutions broadly then absolutely, it's insanely risk-averse and often in actively stupid ways
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slightly disagree, because 'discouraging harm' is 'awesomeness', provided the harm is real
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There’s a lot of attention reward for bad behavior. It’s the model news outlets use. Advertising uses the opposite.
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slightly agree. Would be strongly but as a brit I can't hear the word "awsomeness" in my head without a cringe inducingly californian accent
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