Carl_Shulman comments on To Lead, You Must Stand Up - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 December 2007 06:38AM

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Comment author: Carl_Shulman 29 December 2007 07:20:22AM 6 points [-]

People not performing an altruistic service to the organizers in clearing the building isn't very surprising. I find deciding on which restaurant/venue/entertainment a group should go to much more interesting. Often everyone in a group will repeatedly defer, until deadweight costs in time eat away a hefty chunk of the benefit of the excursion. That could be a real public good problem, or just a market failure to capture a private good.