thinking about society rn consider the following
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many interactions in society are governed by implicit contracts, or explicit contracts with implicit implications ("incomplete contracts") im not talking about Rousseau's garbage here; more along an explicitly economic line see eg this (very dry) gem https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0521597137/
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this came to mind because several minutes ago I poured some grease down the kitchen sink
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nothing in my lease prevents me from doing this, and it is certainly more convenient to pour grease down the sink than to spend a minute finding a container for the grease and putting it in the trash sealed it is however bad for the pipes
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if I owned the building I would have taken a moment to dispose of the grease properly I currently rent, but one month ago I still would have put it in the trash unfortunately, in the ensuring period, my landlord violated an implicit element of our contract: "don't be a dick"
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there are still elements of the building that I am incentivized to care about because they are protected by my deposit or by explicit terms of the lease, but because the landlord Defected this is the limit to which I am willing to big-c Cooperate
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and this is bad for both of us, because the cost of replacing the pipes in the building is far greater than the $25 the landlord strong armed from me; and I was happy to pay epsilon seconds to not degrade the property in exchange for not being strongarmed https://twitter.com/_djpn/status/1387940764278149120?s=19 …
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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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Mason 🏃♂️ ✂️𐃏 @webdevMasonThe main reason I don't consider myself much of a libertarian anymore: the most reckless people are generally the least capable of mitigating, covering or compensating for the damage they can cause, and modern communities don't really have a way of expelling people like thatShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
i think relevant although its not obvious to me that likely alternatives to libertarian modes actually do better with the problems she describes. need to mull that more
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