Nice!
I’m from Samara (that Russian city from the experiment), and I sometimes face with unappreciation of contribution. Usually altruistic people are treated like idiots (why they are taking from thier own and thier close circle to feed some commonwealth?), and sometimes with negative reaction. I tried to explain it by myself and friends with the question “why then to be a contributor?” and my view what’s going on was clumsy. Thanks for that, this article is a good explanation of my native thoughts.
Why can’t you start shoveling those CoDs to pull off dragons from it? I’m not very familiar with therapy, but revision of business process (a what-to-do-in-which-case instruction) is usually a good way to handle power/responsibility problems. Finding occurancies when people have responsibility for something but have no power to change it and defining how to manage these cases should help reducing overall CoD. I’m a bit confused that article predicts that it only will make a CoD worse, I wonder why.