Imagine you're a CEO in a retributive proto-authoritarian regime.
- Imagine you're a CEO in a retributive proto-authoritarian regime.
- Do you raise your hand and say "no?"
- No, you kiss the ring.
- It's all downside to raise your hand, all upside to comply.
- A collective action problem, a prisoner's dilemma.
- One solution: to change the payoff matrix.
- Make it so complying is also not cost-free.
- Make it clear that when the rule of law returns those complicit will be punished according to the law.
- Add constraints, e.g. by states, that punish compliance and make it not zero-downside.