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ChristianKl comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: polymathwannabe 11 August 2015 01:24PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 12 August 2015 12:38:55PM 11 points [-]

Employers pay well-dressed people more money and in general beautiful people get all sorts of advantages. Do you think that isn't enough of a subsidy?

Comment author: badger 12 August 2015 03:16:47PM 4 points [-]

If there is a net positive externality, then even large private benefits aren't enough. That's the whole point of the externality concept.