I find 99% of discourse that hypothesizes motivations of third parties to be beyond boring. And, of course, it rarely announces itself as hypothesizing ; it is almost always asserted as fact. "The McDonalds execs WANT proles to get fat" "The progressives WANT the poor to..."
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4/ CONFIDENTLY asserting what the billionaires, or the Dem or Republican donor class, or members of the Chinese Central Committee or whatever want... why the !@# would I pay any attention to that? ...and what's your mental model of me that would think for a second I'd care?
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I like to start from the presumption that McDonald's execs just want to sell cheeseburgers and aren't all that concerned about the second order effects.
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I start with the presumption people are like me, which is why I figure McD's execs are just working to fund their crippling sci fi books / bookcases / library space addiction.
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