(There's also applications of this around the mess of applying market based mechanisms to public goods - ecosystem services etc, which is my bit of it/research.
Incommensurability of motivations is a powerful dynamic - and benefits of social coordination are massively underappreciated.)

The anecdotal example was some experiments run over fines for late pickup of kids from daycare.
The fines came in to stop ppl being late, but they actually *increased* lateness - because parents started treated the fines as payment for time, and (stronger) pro-social norm not to be late got diluted.

In case of interest, there's research on this - section in Michael Sandel's 'What Money Can't Buy'.
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and how they interact and cannibalise each other when it comes to civil society and public services.

The ultimate version of this response would have been identical in tone, slightly longer, and finished with 'touch sand'.

Ironically the UK is in the same boat - except rather than being tethered to AI stocks its tethered actual Games Workshop stock as a main flywheel of economic dynamism (and mark up) 🙌😅

All things in excess 👾

You couldn't waterboard 'my beloved working class' out of the Islington champagne socialist do-gooder that Glasman rails against in his head.

He's literally his own worst enemy.

It's certainly a world view, but ontological centrism in all things is pretty incredible on the face of it.

The implication of all this is that the people with a watching brief for editorial impartiality at the BBC think that every politician conveniently acts in equally reprehensible ways, and that the difference in outcome and visibility is simply a question of differential media commissioning...

Lots - and it's an incredibly important part of it. 2nd half of the post is exactly about that as a purpose of IHT.

Once it becomes standard that intergenerational wealth transfers are needed for any housing purchase, those in social sector are completely marginalised. No hope. It's a bad system.

And on IHT, as with wealth taxes the steeliest arg is a *social contract one* around large skews in intergen. transmission of wealth being amongst the most corrosive kinds of inequality - because of what it does to those left outside big transfers, and to the 'everyone gets a fair-go' principle.

One bugbear about millennials being about to inherit the most of any generation in history (✅) - but in most cases too late to correct the housing market misallocation that has stymied the social reproduction function (whoops).
There's loads of £££ left on the street for a social planner to pick up.

There's plenty of poor regulatory prioritisation to take a swing at, but 'we spent £700m to not achieve the objective (which we disagree with)' kinda indicates some people were terrible at their jobs?

/ Lights up @dsquareddigest.bsky.social bat(cave) signal 👀 /

Cat cultural victory.civ meme

Says it right there on the chart. If the Luftwaffe get you on your 24th shot, and you never walk again - nada.
Pure ableism 🚮

All the incoming elite managers talking up the Prem as some kind of physical, technical higher plane always sounded a bit self-justifying.

It's funny seeing it come the other way around, from players going out to pasture.

Also, it clearly isn't an unalloyed good for winning european competition...

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And it's just comes at the cost of substituting one of his most relatable attributes for a defensive robotic script. Sad.

I think it's because in his most human, squishy internal tier list he genuinely has 'Arsenal' sitting just above 'The Country'.

And he's both embarrassed by that, and reflexively wants to protect Arsenal from Labour-ification, and the government/country from being taken over by football fan rivalry