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> This does not conflict with trying to slow it.

It can, though, so we need to be super careful. It's basic human social dynamics: once someone starts making money from mitigating a problem, they become invested in perpetuating (or even worsening) the problem.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. But when your lemonade stand starts raking in serious cash, you suddenly want to make sure everyone is being given lemons, so you can buy them up and sell even more lemonade.




I partly agree, but the "super" in "super careful" is going too far. It is OK to take risks when trying to rescue people from a burning building.


this can be said about pretty much everything


Yes. Doesn't make it any less true. On the contrary, realizing this lets one understand many peculiarities of the civilization we live in.


Yes but perverse incentives like this are very often neglected in peoples happy path analysis.




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