This is awesome. Thank you for writing it up (and thank you more for actually doing the work).
It strikes me that most of these successes stem from the very fact that it’s NOT a rigorous cost-benefit calculation, and certainly not a somewhat abstract long-term benefit. These activities are providing actual interactions with real people, and that leads to the higher level of trust and cooperation that they experience.
This is awesome. Thank you for writing it up (and thank you more for actually doing the work).
It strikes me that most of these successes stem from the very fact that it’s NOT a rigorous cost-benefit calculation, and certainly not a somewhat abstract long-term benefit. These activities are providing actual interactions with real people, and that leads to the higher level of trust and cooperation that they experience.