Hmm, I might be in the minority in thinking most of humanity are necessarily net free riders given our evolutionary survival model... and that’s not just okay, it’s great
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IIRC, lots of simulations show that free-riding usually caps at something really really low (~10%) to be effective. Too many free riders and the group you are free-riding off of is hurt. Ie there is an optimal, and very low, amount of parasites.
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Most of the free riding is off sunk costs paid by dead people
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I just based my slightly net positive on the fact that I make more than I spend. That's the definition of net positive.
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And all of humanity is net free riding on Earth's natural resources.
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You mean, bullshit jobs can be considered spillover free riding?
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a high percentage of free riders in the population is the hallmark of an advanced civilization.
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two main modes of free riding today as I see it: free riding that's a grift (abuse of assistance programs by wealthy) and free riding that's stupidity (wealth redistribution through purely the market)
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Couple that with the fact that so many jobs are “bullshit jobs” (see: David Graeber), you start to see how the economy is work for work’s sake. The “free rider” problem is a false neoliberal construction
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Modern civilization is moving the abstraction level.
Individual people are now cells in a superorganism.
They are being selected based on how well their dynamic balance benefits the superorganism.
Individual results don't matter.









