It’s obvious that not *all* wealth is acquired through productivity (see: aristocrats, lottery winners, con artists) and that wealth can *ever* be acquired through productivity (see: Thomas Edison) but the magnitude matters.
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Either way, I want to live in a world where providing value to other people can be expected to result in rewards to oneself.
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The more self-interest and empathy are opposites, the more conflict and destruction we can expect. The more people are rewarded for doing nice things, the more nice things we can expect.
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The ideology that’s *definitely* pernicious, no matter which world we live in, is the one that says mutual benefit is in principle impossible or undesirable.
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It’s usually subtextual, an assumption of hostility between humans that’s never questioned. *Of course* good for me means bad for you — not just in a particular situation but by default.
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It can just be *true* that a given situation is adversarial. I’m not saying it’s wrong to notice conflicts. The thing I’m saying is bad is usually an *implicit* assumption of conflict that would sound fucked up if you ever said it out loud.
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I don’t know the best single word for “a system that rewards behavior that benefits others”. A system where giving results in getting. Meritocratic, just, fair, incentive-aligned, cooperative, reciprocal?
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
I contrast these systems with predatory systems and tend to describe them as “generative” or talk about systems that”encourage human flourishing”
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Replying to @liminal_warmth @s_r_constantin
Seems like this also dovetails with abundance versus zero-sum mindsets When I think about predatory or extractive systems it’s about stepping in and creating a bottleneck to seize value Generative systems create value in excess of the effort The latter is much harder to do
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Replying to @liminal_warmth @s_r_constantin
Like getting paid for building a bridge for people over a gap versus finding someone else’s free bridge and standing on it to charge people to pass
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