Without concrete examples, everyone can simply agree with all the arguments about norms and incentives, and then continue as before, without changing their behavior in any way. Al Capone is happy to say “Of course tax evasion is bad!”—as long as we don’t try to prosecute him for it.
The people who are enforcing bad norms or establishing bad incentives, while acting under other (or the same) bad norms or incentives would often acknowledge that the norms and the incentives are no good, and might cooperate (or even lead) in setting up coordination technologies that reduce or contest the influence of these forces.
No, what happens is that those people acknowledge that the norms and incentives are no good, and then do not cooperate in setting up those coordination technologies, and indeed often actively sabotage other people’s attempts at such coordination.
Without concrete examples, everyone can simply agree with all the arguments about norms and incentives, and then continue as before, without changing their behavior in any way. Al Capone is happy to say “Of course tax evasion is bad!”—as long as we don’t try to prosecute him for it.
No, what happens is that those people acknowledge that the norms and incentives are no good, and then do not cooperate in setting up those coordination technologies, and indeed often actively sabotage other people’s attempts at such coordination.