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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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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an example of this low-trust environment in action:https://twitter.com/NotJonMollison/status/1386903321676423170?s=20 …
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