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Individual vs. Group Incentives
Why do nations struggle to strategically pursue their long-term interests, even when they're clear and obvious? It's because the nation is an abstract concept incapable of conscious decision-making; instead, the decision is made by a number of individual human beings, most of whom will inevitably be selfish assholes.
We'll examine how individual incentives undermine group interests in this episode.
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