Tom Bilyeu

Yeah, I mean, oh God.

So this is such a clear example of show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome.

So we don't wanna believe that people will take advantage of systems, but game theory makes it abundantly clear that they will.

So this is a freeloader problem.

This is why the right and the left exist.

from an evolutionary standpoint.

To get humans to function in large groups together, you have to have something that causes cohesion.

And because in the God knows how many millennia before refrigeration, the only way to make food last was basically to store it on somebody else's body as body fat.

So if I got more than I could eat before it would rot, I was going to give some to somebody else knowing that in the future they would feel a sense of reciprocal need.

And when I don't get something and they do, they're going to let me eat.

And so you bake into the architecture of the human mind this feeling of reciprocity, of wanting to help other people.

But then what ends up happening is evolution says that humans are always going to exploit whatever niche they can.

And if the niche is, oh, you have an algorithm running in your brain that says, give something to me, I'm going to exploit that algorithm and get you to just give something to me, even though I'm not contributing to the group.

So then if you don't address that from an evolutionary perspective and bake something into the human mind, then you just get a bunch of freeloaders and you get a parasite that ends up killing the host.

So you get this pushback against the freeloader problem, which is people saying, no, no, no, personal responsibility.

You got to stand up for your own.

I'll give you occasionally.

But if you're not contributing and giving back to me, fuck you.

And that's what humans are really like.

They'll give to you first.