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philipov on Oct 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy Tbh

You can't build a policy on "Maybe people will just be nice?".

Aggregate economic decisions are not based on values, they are based on systematic incentives.

If society operated on altruistic values, it would have never invented government.

coldtea on Oct 25, 2017 [–]

>If society operated on altruistic values, it would have never invented government.

This assumes there are no coordination, planning and other services that the government offers.

At best, society would never had invented the police.

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