After #COVID I learned about systems thinking, and it shaped my approach to thinking about the #economy. I wrote a blog post to talk about an important concept: Goal displacement, which happens when we build systems that indefinitely maximize for abstract goals like efficiency, over long time horizons.
#philosophy #ethics #capitalism
https://misaligned.markets/mammon-as-maloptimization/
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