Even people who seem obviously beyond the pale, like people building uninsurable homes in floodplains/hurricane zones/fire boundaries and expecting bailouts post-disaster, are helping learn the global risk function. Though it’s admittedly hard to be sympathetic.
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Do you know in what ways *you* are building on a flood plain? Is for eg. all of academia a flood plain? Is making art and expecting Patreon/NFT income that different from building in a hurricane zone and expecting FEMA bailout? Super easy to rationalize your thing as prosocial.
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You’re socializing the costs of your risk-taking. Taxpayer money vs patronage money is not that big a difference.
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Something like that, esp on the trustie end. You might elevate our collective soul with some sublime art. Or you might just self-indulgently free-ride on others’ confused sentiments and loopholes in cronyist institutional grant programs, with a trust fund backstopping you.
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surely there are some other options here 😂
on some level all creative work is a scam on paper - selling or receiving money for worthless things with the illusion of value due to surface qualities - but there are also whole industries dependent on continued creative production
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And there are whole industries devoted to constructing homes in hurricane zones. And brave forestry officials and fire fighters rescuing people from wildfires. The existence of a vast support stack for flood plain building doesn’t make it not flood plain building.
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