Comment by bitwize
1 year ago
Perverse incentives + prisoner's dilemma = it gets REALLY hard to not follow the edict of the incentives.
1 year ago
Perverse incentives + prisoner's dilemma = it gets REALLY hard to not follow the edict of the incentives.
The world is sinful on many levels there is a lot to change. It is hard to exist in a way that doesn't fuck someone over. If you live in the global west and participate in modern life then you are in some area definitely following a perverse inventive.
For example do you live in a building? Do you heat it? There you go. You should be in a tent. Climate change.
Have an SP500 index fund? Investing in weapons and other dystopia. Generally support globalization, regulatory capture, lobbying, bad work conditions and tax evasion over supporting small business.
Vote for one of the 2 main parties? Well done both support genocide. Protest vote? Oh then you voted for Trump in this system well done! The only moral thing is to change the constitution (fwiw) for proportional representation.
Send your kids to a good school?
The list doesn't end.
If enough people protest-vote then it isn't necessarily a vote for the winner - if the number of protest-voters is large enough to have changed the outcome had they all voted for the loser, then the losing party (if they are doing their job) has to take notice and listen to why this group isn't happy. If the protest-voters become a massive group of people (say 1/3 of the vote), they will probably become the focus of a lot of political debates and tv-news stories, and elected officials will have to start catering to them. But it all only works if lots of people can have the integrity to not blame "the system" for why they voted for the-crook-who-was-better-than-the-other-crook. (FYI I'm aware this has very little to do with the point you were making. I mostly agree with that)