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munificentyesterday at 4:34 PM1 replyview on HN

We can control the incentives!

The idea that we should completely cede the environment and public space to corporations and give them total autonomy over the incentives that surround us is crazy.


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sleazebreezeyesterday at 11:20 PM

My apologies. I was responding to the fact that animals and humans have base instincts that steer us towards bad food choices or over-stimulations. I was considering those instincts as the incentives that can't be changed.

On a macro scale, yes I agree that we should revolt against campaigns designed to exploit our animal nature. However on a personal basis, I do believe we owe it to ourselves to take radical responsibility over our own reactions to those things.

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