Better than beavers

Better than beavers

Hi all,

I still have a no-blog period (while working and swimming), so there is no extensive newsletter. However, I want to share an essay I wrote for Vrij Nederland (in Dutch) a few weeks ago. The main message is based on this article from Wilson and Snower on multilevel well-being: optimising well-being is not maximising the sum of each individual’s welfare, but to have a collective well-being, we also need to sacrifice something for the common good. Something we seemed to have forgotten.

See article here on my substack.


Enjoy.



Mark J. Guay, LL.M.

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7 个月

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Thank for sharing

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Jessie Lydia Henshaw

Growing to Harmony -OR- Growing to Tragedy ... A choice to make …

7 个月

A great view of what we hope might work, but very oddly has also been backfiring, exponentially, with that very dramatic misbehavior also left unexamined, over and over, except by odd folk like Keynes, and a very few other systems scientists also failing to get the simple principle involved across, as very strong evidence of a systemic blind spot. It is not quite analogous, but every way of seeing hides thing too, the spot in the retina where the optic nerve connects, looking at things from the outside hiding the inside, studying things after they’ve formed hiding how they formed, the destabilizing side effects of whatever gives one the most reliable intended effects. There are so many of these it does seem to make “seeing” a matter of blind fabrication. So, the question turns into one of what kinds of fabrication are good and bad. Getting warnings of things developing that allow you to fairly well anticipate what’s coming is where this is headed, how we read or don’t read warnings. A curious handicap of science, from interpreting nature based on data, is seeing only the outsides of things, as the insides mostly don’t broadcast. That’s such an extreme sort of bias, something else must be at work too, broader perspectives.

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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Industrielle et des Téchnoligies Avenir

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Marcello Palazzi, MSc MBA, FRSA

Entrepreneur for human progress

7 个月

Thank you, Hans ! Every economist and business leader could read The Theory of Moral Sentiments !

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