It means you capture more of the positive, designed consequences of your own actions and escape more of the negative ones. You've used logic (whether agile experimental or fragile Rube Goldbergian) to shape causation in your favor. Rationality is time/attention/energy leverage.
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The opposite of self-interest is not altruism but anxiety and unchecked excesses on the part of those who *need* your self-interest to recognize their selfishness and be forced to face the coercion and power they’re deploying.
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What they do with that is their moral dilemma. They may choose to change or not. Your job is to create that moral dilemma. That’s ultimately the stakes riding on your reactivity. Be self-interested, or be part of the problem.
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To connect this up with another thread on my timeline: “Fitting into others' plans gives relief. Acting on self interest first causes anxiety, them joy” —paraphrased from
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