thinking about society rn consider the following
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why would the landlord do this? well frankly he has no idea who I am, no context for my rental history, and apparently no bandwidth to read his fucking emails he's operating at scale and impersonally. for him this was Tuesday
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anyway generalizing, it seems to me that scaled organizations necessarily have a difficult time adhering to implicit contractual terms when interacting with individuals firms employ managers to facilitate this and the best managers keep firms and employees Cooperating
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nonlocal governments however struggle here. most individuals mean nothing to them until they stop paying taxes or become Inconvenient, and their main mode of interfacing is rigid bureaucracy do you enjoy calls from the FBI or the IRS?
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so basically a major problem of government is cultivating a relationship with its citizens that is Cooperative to avoid these contracting problems
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governments can do this by not imposing hateful terms, by keeping its operation as local as possible, by keeping the contract space predictable and limited, and by cultivating a sense of shared intetest and identity
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noting all of this it seems like (i) representative governments probably have advantages over nonrepresentative, (ii) the US really has probably fucked up by nationalizing and bureaucratizing everything instead of keeping most operation small scale and devolved to localities
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tldr today im mad about the twentieth century thanks for listening
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Isn't this just Hobbes' foole problem?
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flushing 50 gallons of used french fry oil down the toilet, interspersed with several bottles of drano
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Having once been strongarmed out of $150 as a poor graduate student, I am deeply interested in what went down here.
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