“I cut the cake, you pick your half” is basically the only good political idea anyone has ever had. Everything else is either derived from that, or self-serving behavior dressed up to look like an idea.
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Very zero-sum. I like to think most political ideas are (or used to be) better than that!
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Politics is definitionally zero sum in my philosophy. That’s in fact the best-case scenario since it’s usually negative sum. Positive-sum history generally takes new technological forces operating.
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Incentive compatible mechanism design peaked with cakes and sandwiches. All downhill since then.
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if you don’t giggle at the absolute perfection of this principle it’s because you’re upset that every political philosophy you’ve advocated is useless by comparison or are well-adjusted enough to have internalized it and don’t have to constantly rederive fair political principles
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