“5% give everything to the second player, nearly doubling our previous estimate of what percent of people are Jesus”
I wonder how much “windfall” or similar circumstances around the money change how one responds. In my recent history I’ve had two windfall gains, one an inheritance and one the money that was being handed out as the “everyone gets a check” part of covid relief. In both cases I was happy to give the money to family who needed it more than me.
I raise this because I don’t think of myself as Jesus (not even by Scott’s fairly undemanding tithing / rational altruism standards). I think the dispositive thing was really that this was windfall money; I don’t think of “normal revenue” money in the same way. Would I consider money won while playing one of these games as windfall or as earned? I suspect it might be very fragile to the precise framing of the experiment...
“5% give everything to the second player, nearly doubling our previous estimate of what percent of people are Jesus”
I wonder how much “windfall” or similar circumstances around the money change how one responds. In my recent history I’ve had two windfall gains, one an inheritance and one the money that was being handed out as the “everyone gets a check” part of covid relief. In both cases I was happy to give the money to family who needed it more than me.
I raise this because I don’t think of myself as Jesus (not even by Scott’s fairly undemanding tithing / rational altruism standards). I think the dispositive thing was really that this was windfall money; I don’t think of “normal revenue” money in the same way. Would I consider money won while playing one of these games as windfall or as earned? I suspect it might be very fragile to the precise framing of the experiment...