RE: Embracing Linear Equality on Steem: Unlearning the Sucker & Maximising the Arsehole in Me
Oh how I want to like you. You're super funny and intelligent. But See your last paragraph:
It's unfortunate that you were the only person I was able to convince that this was the correct approach, and you weren't able to convince anyone else when you reached out individually either. The scope of the problem is at the level of economic incentives (I believe Linear, despite all its advantages, is the predominant cause of this), not at the level of individual bad actors. And trying to fight it on the level of individual bad actors would likely fail.
This is what should convince you you're wrong. Yet you're blind to it. And now you have caused one of the most generous people on steem to act like you.
You Personally Have now made The World a worse place than it would be without your interference.
But you have a great talent, and can make that ^ comment no longer true.
I hope that was your goal, because that's the outcome.
Everyone should be required to read @idikuci’s statement in bold, very half hour or so. It should be rephrased as a question and put down by the. Voting and Posting Buttons:
“Is what you are about to do going to make the World a worse place than it would be without your interference?”
The problem around here is NOT economics. Profit Maximization is a middle-brow utilitarian ethical system for middle-brow minds.
Except as intellectually vapid as the system is (and it is...people who have moved beyond first-year college ideas know this in an obvious way) the real problem is not about it’s logical failings, but, rather, it’s failings on a higher level of cognition associated with learned empathy, synergizing rationality and reason with controlled puroposeful emotions, and better understanding the complexity of individuals and the civilizations we conceptualize as making them up.
This is a longer (and less well-said) version of Idi’s idea...Avoid doing something that makes the world a worse place than had you done nothing at all.
(If you have any inclination to upvote this comment for some unknown reason, please let me encourage you to upvote @Idikuci’s instead of you haven’t already done so. Or upvote for an artist on here that made something that touched you).
what are you doing, don't miss out ..... you upvote trafjin 100%, he upvotes you 100% or 1% whichever comes first
go jerk it...come-on baby!