“The scale of contemporary society makes the design of systems which limit the acquisition of power very difficult.”
Mills, to Jeff, amid his Irrational, Unpredictable, and Not Particularly Intelligent debate with Katie, stemming from a post elsewhere on the revelations of behavioral economics.
I have a lot of scattered thoughts about how increasing scale could affect even well-established ethics/civics and how tragedy of the commons problems morph when the shared resource is theoretically non-depletable/non-zero-sum (ex: public databases). Mills adds one more puzzle piece.
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