Sometimes I have a crazy intuition like “if people just categorically refused to work with anybody who seemed untrustworthy or “fake” or trying to take advantage, the world would be better.”
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Non-assholes have selfish motivations that they're not fully aware of. Women choose to date rich/powerful men irrespective of how they got it. People associate with those who managed to win because it benefits them in particular.
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Here's the thing. It's *locally* rational to pay protection money to a thug who might protect you from other thugs. (Which is more or less what sexual attraction to powerful-but-amoral men is.) It's not rational if a large enough group can commit to not doing it.
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“Non-assholes have all the *real* power except the power to confuse people into second-guessing their own judgments of character or convincing people that character doesn’t matter.”
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Institutions and incentives matter, but they are tools made by people. Good incentive design is a type of work and like all work it is only done well by “productive contributors” who are trying to create value even if they can’t capture it all.
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