Jan 18, 2020, 10:21 AM
by Tim Kay
Such an important post. There are minimum necessary conditions for civilization, undermine any one of them and the castle will fall on you too. A group competitive strategy cannot be ‘wrong’ but it actually can be against one’s interests in the long term. Anyone giving a free pass to those who externalise costs onto the maintainers of those minimum necessary conditions is a laughing fool packing dynamite against the foundations of the castle they live in. It is a strategy to obtain power only – but over a ship with gaping holes in its side. And it doesn’t matter if the vector for those costs does so in ignorance or not; they are carriers of costs. And it doesn’t matter if those who cover up impositions of cost by irreciprocity do so in ignorance or not; they are carriers of lies. The only thing that matters is stopping the water from rushing in, the pillars from collapsing, the castle from falling, all that matters is the outcome and what you stand to lose. The highest moral good is stopping the rot, all others secondary, intuition insufficient.