A friend from Argentina once told me Argentina keeps its best wines for themselves and exports the mediocre stuff, even at the sake of profits.
Similarly, a friend from Turkey once said he couldn’t find good Turkish olives outside of Turkey because “Turks are terrible businessmen and keep the best olives to themselves.”
These are anecdotal and might be untrue but I liked the idea.
At an individual level, it’s irrational to cooperate in a prisoner’s dilemma yet experiments show people cooperate.
Contributing to open source projects may fall into this category.
Have you observed any obvious behavior that goes counter to profit maximization? Any cool examples?
Thank you for the fun times. I don’t mod games, but other creative work I’ve done still feels real good.
Other than self entitled twat end users shitting up a comment section. Very loud minority.
No problem!
I’ve only done this for about half a year but nearly all the interactions I’ve had with the users have been great, I really can’t complain.