And just because someone is unpleasant doesn't mean they net destroy value. The beauty of markets is they function as a universal API for value & trade. Abstract out the sleaze. Destroy this and you destroy the economy and return us to scrabbling in dirt in little kin groups.
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Replying to @patrissimo
I don’t think you should use “unpleasantness” as your gauge! Some people are hard to work with at first but you grow to respect and appreciate them. Considered judgment includes but is not limited to your first impression.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @patrissimo
Markets aggregate human local judgments. They work to the extent that those judgments have a tendency to correlate with what people value. That means somebody has to make the judgments!
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @patrissimo
If a critical mass of people overrides their own opinions then markets will lack liquidity, just as a stock market comprising entirely index funds would not have any information in its price signals.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
A business doesn't need to care, and shouldn't care, about whether its suppliers like celery. Or dress as furries. Or are considered unpleasant by some people. It cares about price & quality - the things inside the API. Expanding that care is IMO antithetical to economic scale.
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Replying to @patrissimo
Wow, I am not talking about doing that either, that would indeed be unreasonable.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
Good! It sounded like you wanted people to cut economic ties with people they were currently tolerating, by incorporating more factors into their decisions. To "boycott" a new class of people. Was that not what you were calling for?
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I’m saying that you shouldn’t personally work closely with people you think are untrustworthy or otherwise bad, or work at jobs that you think are bad, after having given the matter serious thought. Don’t act on what you know are shallow prejudices, act on your *best* judgment.
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Replying to @patrissimo
Not always! Maybe you do. But it's common for people to feel like "maybe it's just me", "maybe the world is just like that", "maybe there's something I'm missing", "nobody would *actually* be that bad, so I must be mistaken", etc.
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If you think what I'm advocating is obvious, that means you get it. I think people should be more *agentic*. I think people should do more of what they actually reflectively want to do. It's not redundant to say it because many people are too demoralized & don't know they can.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
My read is not that people are demoralized, but overwhelmed with conflicting advice. And specifically, there is social pressure to "boycott", pressure which is wielded by political interest groups and often counter to the individual's interest. We don't need that boosted.
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