To avoid being negatively influenced by perverse incentives to make societally risky plays, couldn’t TurnTrout just leave the handling of his finances to someone else and be unaware of whether or not he has Google stock?
Doesn’t matter if he does, as long as he doesn’t think he does; and if he’s uncertain about it, I think psychologically it’ll already greatly reduce caring about Google stock.
To avoid being negatively influenced by perverse incentives to make societally risky plays, couldn’t TurnTrout just leave the handling of his finances to someone else and be unaware of whether or not he has Google stock?
Doesn’t matter if he does, as long as he doesn’t think he does; and if he’s uncertain about it, I think psychologically it’ll already greatly reduce caring about Google stock.
Everyone at Google gets unvested Google stock that can’t be sold. It’s going to be very hard to start believing that he doesn’t own any Google stock.
Are you sure it can’t be sold? That doesn’t sound right to me. I was able to sell mine.
I mean, you can sell as soon as it vests, but you can’t sell the unvested stock (they are non-transferrable until vested).