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DemocratSinceBirth

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8. It's hard to get folks to do stuff without incentivizing them.
Thu Feb 12, 2015, 08:44 PM
Feb 2015

Money is just one form of an incentive but folks need to be incentivized to do things.


I have seen the argument that folks are willing to help in disasters without no benefit to themselves and there are folks that are just altruistic but that's not nearly enough to organize a society around. That's where a nasty thing called force came in.

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