Adam Gurri: Might as well say “why I defect every coordination game and you should too. Doing your part in collective action is pointless.”

Might as well say “why I defect every coordination game and you should too. Doing your part in collective action is pointless.”

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Every dude like this: “society is created to stop freeriding.” “Why vote when your individual vote is just a small part of the whole?”

Didn’t read the piece but I can say without any doubt that voting and participating in local politics is the easiest way to have a vastly disproportionate effect on the laws and regulations and budgets that get passed in your town

I always think of this

Virtue ethics and deontology are stupid — embrace solipsistic consequentialism

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