That’s a complicated question. At an individual level you have value alignment (people who agree with your values) and incentive alignment (people who disagree with your values but do what you want anyway because incentives).
Value alignment is mostly persuasion and having enough attention of people.
Incentive alignment is everything on Maslow hierarchy. You can reward or penalise others in terms of their physical safety, in terms of food and water, in terms of social approval of family and friends, in terms of providing them meaning in life, etc. (Which is basically the stuff you’re saying)
There’s another lens to look at this which is, how do you get a lot of leverage over reality. Naval Ravikant quotes three forms of leverage—labour, capital and anything that replicate at zero cost on the internet. There’s more nuance to this but at a high level I agree—having a lot of people who will listen to you is power, having a lot of money is power and publishing information/code/media/games/etc that affect millions of lives is power.
That’s a complicated question. At an individual level you have value alignment (people who agree with your values) and incentive alignment (people who disagree with your values but do what you want anyway because incentives).
Value alignment is mostly persuasion and having enough attention of people.
Incentive alignment is everything on Maslow hierarchy. You can reward or penalise others in terms of their physical safety, in terms of food and water, in terms of social approval of family and friends, in terms of providing them meaning in life, etc. (Which is basically the stuff you’re saying)
There’s another lens to look at this which is, how do you get a lot of leverage over reality. Naval Ravikant quotes three forms of leverage—labour, capital and anything that replicate at zero cost on the internet. There’s more nuance to this but at a high level I agree—having a lot of people who will listen to you is power, having a lot of money is power and publishing information/code/media/games/etc that affect millions of lives is power.