(diary entry)
I used to be in awe that my equally autistic business partner of many years could empathize with the incentives of bureaucrats. His approach was not ‘truth’ or ‘best’ but what ‘they want or need.’ When I complimented him once, he criticized me for disingenuity since incentives were something in which I held demonstrated expertise. But it is very hard to understand the incentives of bureaucrats, since in my subconscious they are almost always acting against the interests of the organization when they try to act in the interest of the organization. I don’t know why working on propertarianism helped me understand them. But it did. Politicians as well. People just acquire whatever capital that they need. MORAL capital in the COMMONS is very different from POLITICAL capital in government and private bureaucracy.
Family Kinship Capital (keep the family cooperating)
Common Moral Capital (keep society cooperating)
Business (service / product) Ethical Capital (keep customers for the business)
Bureaucratic Political Capital (insulate the organization from outsiders)
Political and Religious Capital (persist the organization at all costs)
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-16 03:58:00 UTC
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