Rex Kerr
Apr 23, 2024

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Big Gullet Bill vs Little Red Hen parable cage match!

The problem with billionaires is that we set up a game, they play, and oh boy, do they win big. Then we're all like: hey! You won too big!

Maybe we're playing the wrong game, but the right game is probably not the wrong game with a rule: if you win really really big, we pretend you only won big and the house pockets the rest.

If that worked with human nature, there's be a lot of lotteries where the jackpot was capped at, say, $100k, and as more people play, you have more jackpots. Aside from lotteries being stupid and regressive in general, this illustrates a point about human nature that pretty strongly clashes with your suggestion for how to get out of the parable of Big Gullet Bill.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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