surely by now there must be academics doing historical studies trying to formulate theories for how that place is so pathologically self-sabotaging right
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also depends on influence of aggregate groups versus individually powerful actors
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incentives are for ants, only very simple people follow the most reasonable path that is laid out for them by external circumstances
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psychologists and economists want for things like "incentives structures" to apply universally because it would let them control people like automata, fits into gay rationalist clockwork universe idea
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but it's only good for common people, has no applicability to rulership, and a true leader can make people disregard all "incentives" through force of personality anyway
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