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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This is crazy because people need to work to survive and what if their only options are people who are trying to take advantage? I get that. It’s not a practical proposal.
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But all the actual productive capacity of the economy is in people who are making positive-sum contributions. The “nation” of positive-sum builders and helpers is, by necessity, richer than the “nation” of zero-sum takers. In actual resources if not dollars.
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Imagine if everyone went on a sort of “strike” all at once: don’t work with or for anyone you think is sleazy or unfair. Don’t do any job you think is pointless or immoral. Just actually listen to your personal judgment. Would everyone starve?
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So much wrong with this. To start, human intuition about economic value is terrible. People who think a job is pointless are almost always wrong. The economy is a complex web of intermediate components. You might as well be asking if one edge weight in a neural net seems right.
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If you don’t understand exactly how your job fits into the global economy, but you believe that it does, and that you’re “doing your bit”, then you don’t think your job is pointless.
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