Economic: people assign high utility to work and negative utility to consumption: we trade by agreeing to consume each other’s product in return for their using ours. Third world aid takes the form of stealing their good and then secretly burning them.
Governmental: whenever anyone utters a rhyming couplet, that couplet becomes law, taking precedence over all previous laws. However, no couplet can be repeated, so political think-tanks hire thousands of poets to craft elegant new laws. The strongest new couplets are held in reserve for decades, in a MAD scenario.
Economic: people assign high utility to work and negative utility to consumption: we trade by agreeing to consume each other’s product in return for their using ours. Third world aid takes the form of stealing their good and then secretly burning them.
Governmental: whenever anyone utters a rhyming couplet, that couplet becomes law, taking precedence over all previous laws. However, no couplet can be repeated, so political think-tanks hire thousands of poets to craft elegant new laws. The strongest new couplets are held in reserve for decades, in a MAD scenario.