i wish people more broadly understood the difference between "the people of this group each individually and knowingly desire this action for shared reasons", "the people of this group each have incentives that make them likely to desire this action, although probably for different and individual reasons", "the group's summed incentives drive it collectively in this direction", "the structure of the group and its bylaws and decision making process make it inevitably prefer this action", and "this group is being steered in this direction by specific members" because i don't think you can really understand. anything about large groups without understanding all of those