The eternal tension of public health - everyone wants a solution that they can do individually, but most of the things that work have to be implemented at a population level
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To put it in economic terms, the big issue is externalities
The person who gets a discount to install asbestos is rarely the one who then has to clean it up many decades years later! -
There is a market solution for obesity (weight watchers etc.) but the problem is that willpower is not evenly distributed in the population.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1435955296963284995?s=19 …
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