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Asymmetric Rules That Hinder

Asymmetric Rules That Hinder

Asymmetric rules are not the rules you want for key people in an organization.

It becomes an agency problem.

Less of, “What is best for the organization (or everyone else).”

More of, “What is best for me.”

Understand: Asymmetric payoffs are great in trading and seeking success – but that’s not what we are talking about here – is it?

We’re trying to have a really big impact on the space industry. If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules. “There is a fundamental problem with regulators. If a regulator agrees to change a rule and something bad happens, they could easily lose their career. Whereas if they change a rule and something good happens, they don’t even get a reward. So, it’s very asymmetric. It’s then very easy to understand why regulators resist changing the rules. It’s because there’s a big punishment on one side and no reward on the other. How would any rational person behave in such a scenario?”

-Ashley Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Amazon)

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For The Utility Of The State

For The Utility Of The State

Heck, I don’t know.

I mean, if we are not here for anything eternal (i.e., we serve no greater purpose).

Why shouldn’t powerful people use us all as a means to an end?

Why should we care?

And why should anyone care if we protested or not?

Understand: Your philosophical word is built on more than you first assume.

That a putatively, but not actually, scientific model of the human being would transform us into animals trained “for the utility of the state” is a constant theme of writers in this period: obviously it generates the governing allegory of Orwell’s Animal Farm. But less than the animal is the numerical: thus Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen,” written in March 1939, just after his arrival in the States, presents an inscription dedicated thus: (To JS/ 07 M 378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State)

-Alan Jacobs, The Year Of Our Lord 1943 (Amazon)

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