1/ Progress is a 3-way contest between has-beens, never-was-es and could-have-beens. When all grumpily accept each other, things get better.
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interesting, but this is posed (at least on my reading) as if an equilibrium between these 3 can be reached; not sure that there is one
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it is also a bit ambiguous in terms of a normative v descriptive stance. Is it a negotiation heuristic or an empirical regulatory?
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it's a descriptive stance...it's what actually happens unless somebody decides to go Hitler/Stalin.
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the interesting case is then what happens if the incumbents clamp down to harshly on the new entrants qua classical rent seeking...
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the problems that seem to arise here are always counterfactual harms, so its easy to discount them...
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you can kill particular efforts locally, not resist an idea whose time has come globally.
