The larger the group of people the more it tends towards sociopathy.
- The larger the group of people the more it tends towards sociopathy.
- The incentive of the individual diverges from the central incentive of the group.
- That is approximated by asking individuals, "If you didn't know which individual you were in the group, what would you want individuals to do?"
- The veil of ignorance.
- As the org gets bigger, individuals feel more like they're a small ant compared to the weight of the organization and can't change it anyway and if they go against it they'll get crushed.
- So it's easier to just go with the emergent incentive, even though you wish it weren't your incentive.
- If you go against the incentive, someone else will just do it.
- If you take a principled stand, you get knocked out of the game.
- The larger the group gets, the stronger the incentive to do the thing that is disjoint from the thing you wish everyone were incentivized to do.