The moral economy needs to get off the death-count standard. There are more and worse ways for people to suffer than dying. Fiat pain standard. Yes it can be abused and drive runaway victimhood inflation. But it’s better than death being the only thing recognized as “true pain”
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Ahem for those saying ‘blockchain’ ... I was way ahead of y’all on this one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow43pFm9GLQ …
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Just the slides for those who don’t want to listen to me drone on for an hourhttps://www.slideshare.net/refactorcamp/blood-money-venkatesh-rao-refactor-camp-2018 …
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I’ve been wondering lately if people overindex on the death count as the kpi of political conflict severity. From a humanitarian perspective 10x more deaths may be 10x more tragic, but from a political effectiveness perspective, one viral death on social media = 100 1930s deaths
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