It’s not hard to work out stats of a flourishing society.
A serious swing at an identity-defining win takes ~2 years, and you need a nonzero-sum win before age 30 to not turn into a sucky human.
So economy needs to give *average* people 7 tries with 1/7 win probability by 30
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Yeah not economic. Just identity defining. The sense that your life has a meaning and purpose and that you’re needed on the human stage.
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I think the engine of it has to be economic even if not everybody’s win is defined in economic terms.
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And it’s that kind of thinking that leads to us not solving anomie :p
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You can’t really solve anomie so much as manage it. And ideal level is not zero, since it’s a generative force in small doses.
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