Comments on: They’re predictable and stable https://www.isegoria.net/2023/06/theyre-predictable-and-stable/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:48:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Ullan https://www.isegoria.net/2023/06/theyre-predictable-and-stable/comment-page-1/#comment-3609083 Ullan Tue, 06 Jun 2023 03:46:49 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50071#comment-3609083 People respond to incentives, whether deliberate or situationally imposed. Change the incentives, change the behaviour, but it can be wildly unpredictable if you don’t understand people.
In the US if you have a rare, endangered species of bird on your land the incentive is to shoot, shovel and shut up because otherwise you will lose a massive amount of value and control of your land per federal regulations. In parts of Europe the opposite occurs, finding a rare species is a jackpot, with the government giving you buckets of money to preserve the habitat.
The US, whether due to stupidity or evil design, seems to get incentives insanely wrong, from welfare to banking to education. Nothing gets better until this is fixed.

]]> By: Longarch https://www.isegoria.net/2023/06/theyre-predictable-and-stable/comment-page-1/#comment-3609042 Longarch Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:37:19 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50071#comment-3609042 “Is it Constitutional® for these ‘people’ to be in the realm at all?”

In the original interpretation? Of course not. If the Constitution can be stretched indefinitely, then it will continue to be stretched and distorted. In some ways, US laws resemble a big sheet of Lycra or Spandex fabric that can stretch quite a ways. But what will happen to the country if the folks who stretch and distort government power suddenly tear the fabric?

]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2023/06/theyre-predictable-and-stable/comment-page-1/#comment-3609029 Jim Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:20:20 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50071#comment-3609029 I’m as much a true-blue supporter of IRS-sponsored, FBI-enforced, U.S. District Court-approved medium-boil race war as the next good little rules-following jobs-having taxes-paying U.S. citizen, but sometimes it seems like no one bothers to ask the singly most obvious question daringly staring the modern mealy masses squarely in the subtly underdeveloped collective midface: Is it Constitutional® for these “people” to be in the realm at all?

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