I'll start doing this around you if you give me fifty bucks.
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How exactly does one make change from an immortal soul? Asking for a friend who needs a minor miracle.
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simple, Horcrux the soul into the denomination of your choice, and keep the remainder.
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I’m not sure enough people could quantify things in the way you’d like. So you might just end up with wildly inaccurate prices, some cognitively overburdened acquaintances, and, I think, no seriously foreseeable reduction in social capital expenditure.
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While in principle I think that economic and social capital are tradable, I actually think the boundary between them is a useful one. 1/
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I see it as a method for resolving prisoner's dilemmas between friends. Basically, you each agree to turn off the economic evaluator module in your brain for social interactions 2/
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But you'll still end up paying unknown social Capitol costs even if money is exchanged. (Most) People can't separate those things. Money can actually make the social costs *more*
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Working theory: traditional norms of politeness encoded these amounts better and, with the reexamination of flawed moral frameworks that was the 20th century, we threw out a lot of invisible price tags without throwing out the things to which they were attached.
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"traditional norms of politeness encoded these amounts better" - Cialdini wrote about the principal of reciprocity and showed gift-giving tendencies were exploitable. It's hard to have heuristics add up to optimal.
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Careful, Facebook is listening.
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This is a good read by
@vgr about why people don't ask for money for certain thingshttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/08/12/the-economics-of-pricelessness/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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That reminds me a bit of Atlas Shrugged, in Galt's Gulch people do exactly that they charge small amounts of money for small favors...
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The trouble is that asking for a taboo trades/standard transactions conversion factor itself proposes a taboo trade
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