Re:India's Indira canteen: The best meal you can buy for 13 ...
by baddox on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:15PM
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You can’t just say “incentive alignment is good.” Incentive alignment is only “good” if they’re aligned with your incentives. If you are poor or approve of helping the poor get affordable food, then this is an instance of good incentive alignment. But, on the complete other side of the spectrum, if you’re poor and you observe the government giving tax breaks for private jets, that’s an example of bad incentive alignment. Of course, many of the people with private jets will likely consider the latter to be a good form of incentive alignment.
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Re:India's Indira canteen: The best meal you can buy for 13 ...
by sangnoir on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:25PM
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If it's a democracy and the private jet owners are the majority - then more power to them. If they are not, and they only achieve "alignment" by any means that deny citizens of their right to vote, then shame on them.
Incentive alignment should be expected with the majority of society - or at least the voting public.