Governments consistently overemphasis making new things, relative to maintaining old things. How could we bundle the price of maintain into the price of making new things, to ensure adequate maintenance?
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Replying to @robinhanson
Isnt this what ritual and tradition do? All maintenance-heavy sectors are full of it: military, fishing, intensive farming It’s not a pricing problem, but a meaning problem. Code maintenance actions to be meaningful via ritual. Pricing it can backfire cf Ariely daycare example
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Replying to @vgr
That's an interesting line of thought. Did the ancient world promote tradition in part to ensure adequate maintenance?
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Replying to @robinhanson
I suspect so. Fasting rituals seem to be about diet maintenance at least in part. Many festivals seem to mark maintenance milestones (sowing/reaping...). Maybe @sarahdoingthing has a clearer take here.
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