• DingleBoone@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    If the only options for the farmer are let people starve or get raided, why would he choose to be a farmer then? Seems more likely he’d do something else or join the mob rather than become a farmer in the first place.

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      1 year ago

      Because if he doesn’t farm he starves as well. The issue is that people doesn’t think through the long term common good consequences of their actions, less so because they’re selfish, but more so because people aren’t designed to think that way.

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        1 year ago

        Because if he doesn’t farm he starves as well.

        Which is why I added that instead of being a farmer, he could just join the mob of people that would have raided him if he had been a farmer. Why aren’t they all farming?