21 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 22 Jul \ parent \ on: Ranked: Average Working Hours by Country charts_and_numbers
Who are the two players in this Prisoners Dilemma?
A company that guarantees paid holidays and a competing company that doesn’t.
Idk if prisoner’s dilemma is the right model to use here. But the point is you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.
Scott Alexander’s article ’meditations on Moloch’ in Slatestarcodex illuminates this idea very well. It’s one of the best texts I’ve read. Highly recommended.
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I see what you mean. I just wasn't think about their competitors.
My mom worked at a place that started giving Black Friday off (it wasn't called that yet, though) because everyone was so useless that day they may as well have been home.
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your mother must not work for Best Buy
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No, it was a small business. Now she's retired.
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