155 sats \ 3 replies \ @Taft 13 Aug \ on: Stacker Saloon
–W. Edwards Deming
Look what happened to Martin Luther King, Jr. and more recently Alexey Navalny. It is so often fear that keeps good people from going against a tyrannical system or any dysfunctional system.
Yet, I am not convinced the system has beat one who stands up against tyranny and injustice because they often become a beacon of light for others to follow and feel the inspiration to unite and in unity there is so often enough strength to heal the system from within. Their legacy lives on and they make the world a better place through their example by living an exemplary life and by the art and literature they leave behind.
That's a brutal quote. My refrain of "Outcomes follow incentives" means pretty much the same thing, although it also implies that a good system will beat a bad person.
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Maybe it is utopian or maybe you have to think a good system can beat a bad person, unless he perverts the system.
That was the American founders goal, right? To create a system that didn't require good men for its proper functioning.
It's also the idea Adam Smith articulated about markets: i.e. it's not out of generosity that the baker provides you with bread.
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