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David Chapman
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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 11
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      I’ve been thinking a lot about this since I had to take over all my mom’s adulting three years ago. For a year it was a full time job getting her bullshit admin stuff (27 kinds of insurance, etc ad nauseam) sorted out. Still takes a huge part of my time.

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 11
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      This “administrative externality” work shouldn’t exist in the first place, but if we can’t force internalization, it would be way more efficient to have competent specialists taking care of it.

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    3. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler Jan 12
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      Damn.... this makes my “problems” look completely trivial 🙀 I’m curious if you have an opinion on how much principal–agent conflict there would be, if you or your mother had tried to outsource this work (assuming competency of the specialists).

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      Right, I nearly added a tweet about principal-agent when originally replying to you! There are lots of categories of things that offer pieces of the service one would want, but most of them are fatally compromised by principal-agent conflicts.

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      To take the original example, there are insurance advisors and insurance agents (different things), but they are mainly or entirely compensated by the insurance companies, acting as outsourced/freelanced sales people, so their “advice” is unreliable.

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      And, they don’t do the main thing you actually want, which is not selecting an insurance company, but dealing with their paperwork and screw-ups and (likely-fraudulent gray-area) coverage denials.

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      [One minor current hassle: my mother’s dental insurance says she’s too old to get any dentistry so they won’t pay for emergency dental work done in November. If this were true, which it clearly isn’t, you should have terminated her policy when she got too old, I think?

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      The cost of the dental work is ~$1k and it’s probably not worth my time to try to fight this, but presumably a single call from a Dangerous Professional would get them in line, and they could charge me $100 for that, and everyone would be happy except insurance co.]

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      Also, of course, insurance is just one of 89 major aspects of adulting in America, and you don’t want to have to deal with 89 adulting-as-a-service providers; ideally only one, but at most a handful.

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    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      So for this to work, the service absolutely has to be compensated only by the customer, with rigorous and transparent policies against accepting commissions or other kick-backs from providers. That means it will seem shockingly expensive, to middle-class people, initially.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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      (Throughout the current economy, everyone is used to getting what seems like something-for-nothing that actually isn’t, because the webs of compensation are opaque. This radically distorts incentives. Broader theme re rent-seeking, probably obvious, let’s set aside for now)

      8:47 AM - 12 Jan 2020
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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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          There is a business category that initially claims to do what one would want, called “personal concierge.” They market themselves to the very rich and claim to be able to do essentially anything for you. The most successful one is: https://www.quintessentially.com/services 

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness Jan 12
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          Although they *say* they can deal with routine stuff, virtually all their marketing is about being a high-end travel agent, plus they can do ridiculous things like get a live trained elephant to your child’s birthday party.

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