"... perhaps if I had no alarm system protecting my house, 99.999% of people still wouldn’t rob me. But 99.999% of people not robbing you is still known as 'getting robbed'."https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/28/financial-incentives-are-weaker-than-social-incentives-but-very-important-anyway/ …
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Replying to @Outsideness
Kind of a garbage piece. Back when I was a leftist, I always wondered why low-class Republicans were always voting against their economic interest Maybe it's because... people prefer preserving their culture over having a few more dollars? Strange, we never see that in democracy
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Replying to @17cShyteposter @Outsideness
Most people are pretty well fed and easily entertained these days. Modern Western Leftism is solely about the self-actualisation desires of the aspirational classes.
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Replying to @_oumuamua @17cShyteposter
The best incentive is the kind of lunatic plutocrat wealth that enables you to pursue projects like space programs and micro-nations.
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