Mastodawn

hard to express my feelings about idealism when it manifests.

looking at the big picture, you'd say it's a net positive, when e.g. environmentally friendly technologies start winning out.

but in the detail, there's people who lose in the interim. the transition is not without victims. you could pretend they all deserve it, but that's too easy

this is one of those shitty tram-directing levers i prefer to pretend do not exist. the utilitarian argument appears to be the only rational one.

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LR 6h ago

the best thing you can try is to make such a transition as painless as possible, but such plans can fail due to several factors, of which come to mind:

* lack of global coordination

* preemptive subordination is exploitable (prices rise, lower tiers lose out)

* softening measures are expensive

* powerful "losers" play dirty to delay the turning point, risking disruption and steepening the gradient (it happens later - but then much quicker)

some pain is inevitable.

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ah, so this expands the tram lever zoo by one more model, where one of the people tied to the less populated track attempts to manipulate you into sparing them.

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