Second, your “alcohol is disinhibitory” paragraph doesn’t address the (to me, obvious) question: What if success causes alcohol consumption? Your arguments toward drinking alcohol assume the correlation is from alcohol consumption causing success, rather than the other way around or some third factor causing both.
Third, you say that economic growth and cooperating in large organizations depends on being able to model people, and then go on to say (in the “alcohol is disinhibitory” paragraph, actually): “One possible solution to this is”—Are you trying to “solve” cooperating in large organizations? Cooperating in organizations is crucial to most of our past and future successes, and as far as I can tell, rampant individualism is the problem, not cooperation.
First, thanks for the post, I liked it a lot.
Second, your “alcohol is disinhibitory” paragraph doesn’t address the (to me, obvious) question: What if success causes alcohol consumption? Your arguments toward drinking alcohol assume the correlation is from alcohol consumption causing success, rather than the other way around or some third factor causing both.
Third, you say that economic growth and cooperating in large organizations depends on being able to model people, and then go on to say (in the “alcohol is disinhibitory” paragraph, actually): “One possible solution to this is”—Are you trying to “solve” cooperating in large organizations? Cooperating in organizations is crucial to most of our past and future successes, and as far as I can tell, rampant individualism is the problem, not cooperation.