You still haven't told me why someone competent should want to be a politician in the west.
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Successful motivation of glory or duty for truly greats (e.g. Cincinnatus) are historic for a reason, you can't populate your government on those.
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Private rewards for the people we want in government are at least 3-5x in private industry.
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its a collective action problem but eventually it will be reduced to "if you don't your money goes poof"
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Maybe. Or it keeps going just enough to make people who believe in good governance miserable, because every country is running into the same problem.
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No successful hegemonic rivals, just a world of dysfunctional governments aside from tiny nations, where things bumble along just well enough
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Imagine if, say, Amazon could only pay management 170k for its top executives and 400k for its C-Suite.
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Don't think politicians are ever going to be in it for the money despots aside Like do you think Bezos would be motivated to be president if he we otherwise disinclined if we offered him another few billion?
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No, I think that paying commensurate with a Fortune 500 company CEO, and similarly for various stops on that career track, you attract more worthwhile people at the top of the funnel.
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empirical question
I'm skeptical that financial incentives matter at the top but neither of us have data
would help in civil service, I'll grant that, but people wouldn't stand for it at this point and maybe shouldn't
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I think people not standing for it is what got us into this situation in the first place.
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Yes, I'm fully convinced that financial incentives do not work at the top of the hierarchy. You've been saying it yourself haven't you? Status > Moneyhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1244558878857023490?s=19 …
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