Comment by roenxi
1 day ago
The obvious strategy to manifest that would would be to pay them for what they actually do! That is remarkably easy to organise. But I suspect that would result in them becoming unemployed and it would turn out people don't actually value any of the other things they do.
One of the most troubling aspects of human's poor planning ability is they're absolutely sure something is valuable until they have to make a skin-in-the-game commitment to how much value it provides them personally. Then it turns out they weren't serious.
> Then it turns out they weren't serious.
the classic revealed preference vs stated preference.
Which is bullshit. Or rather, attributing "revealed preferences" to people is. These are mostly fact about environment, not people.
> One of the most troubling aspects of human's poor planning ability is they're absolutely sure something is valuable until they have to make a skin-in-the-game commitment to how much value it provides them personally. Then it turns out they weren't serious.
People have no problem paying something for nothing, if it gives them a chance at a disproportionally great return when they actually need it. It's called insurance, and perhaps we should start framing some of the intangibles in this way.
I.e. paying the premium for possibility of human interaction isn't paying for niceness-as-a-service, it's an insurance policy that pays out in kindness whenever you need it, wherever you are. But like every insurance policy, it only works if there's critical mass of people pooling resources, and stops working if they evaluate it as investment.
"The obvious strategy to manifest that would would be to pay them for what they actually do! That is remarkably easy to organise."
How? How do you set a price based on what someone does?
...a market? I can't tell if you're saying "A market, duh" or "Inconceivable! True worth is abstract and platonic and impossible to assess!"
The market doesn't pay more because we somehow discovered the person actually does more. That would only be the case if because of the discovery either more people decided to hire doormen or fewer people would be interested in becoming doormen.
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