Tinder's Gini coefficient is 0.58, meaning "it has higher inequality than 95% [of] the world's national economies"pic.twitter.com/hPx9ANR0Kz
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Fish probably feel like their personal attention and flesh don't belong to the commons either, but they're over-fished nonetheless :( 4/4
I think this is confusing something like network effects/monopoly with a consumption of finite resources? Directing attention to the thing you want to look at vs. the thing that's available is a search problem, not a consumption problem.
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That said, you can model a human population as a pool of potential productivity that is diminished with leisure beyond some calculable optimum, and maybe generate useful ideas about growth, etc... but people, understandably, don't want to be well-managed fish
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...which is why the authors propose taxing the people who make the things other people enjoy, rather than taxing the enjoyment directly (in one of the most finger-tenty explanations I've ever seen in a tax proposal)pic.twitter.com/MI2kGDWuVw
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