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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Parades and displays are ritualized inspection events, and the things on display typically are cleaned up to a ritual level of presentability (which may or may not correlate well with readiness for actual use). This feels related https://www.jstor.org/stable/2778293?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents …
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