Counter argument: we pay garbagemen more than we pay convenience store clerks because the work is harder and nastier and we have to incentivize them. Thus, we should also expect that we reward warriors with status more than we reward innovators, because market clearing price.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1119949952761978881 …
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2/ Obviously "we" and "too few" need to be defined, but this pattern seems constant across all cultures, so I default to assuming that it's from human nature (which, in turn, suggests that game theory in the universe has shaped human nature).
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The argument that we naturally have too few innovators seems to me much stronger than for too few warriors.
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what matters when explaining why things are as they are is not what economists think, but what the logic of evolutionary selection thinks (and thinks RETROspectively, not prospectively) Did a tribe in 10,000 BC that rewarded innovators more have its genes or memes replicated?
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