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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Jun 2019
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    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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      2.  🅱🅴🅽‏ @ben_mathes 5 Jun 2019
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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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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Jun 2019
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        Most of the free riding is off sunk costs paid by dead people

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      2. Austin Wilson‏ @apdiarra 5 Jun 2019
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        a high percentage of free riders in the population is the hallmark of an advanced civilization.

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      3. Danny Iskandar #mask4all‏ @diskandartweet 6 Jun 2019
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        get easy hanging fruit first, with all tools available solving problems becomes clear thinking, decide and click. Work smart vs work hard. The work hard relegated by the robots and people in less developed countries. Me? floating in the air and ready to suck the honey out of it😌

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      1. madeofmistake (blue check "on the square")‏ @madeofmistak3 5 Jun 2019
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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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      1. Jscott‏ @DailySuicide 5 Jun 2019
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        I'm anti-chore life and chores are everywhere.

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      2. granderojo‏ @granderojo 6 Jun 2019
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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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        former is mostly bad; not much reason to justify it. latter is largely good and should be encouraged.

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      1.  🤧 🌎‏ @atthatmatt 6 Jun 2019
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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.
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