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What I was trying to show is that people have an arbitrary tendency to attribute responsibility to the person who last touched something (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zTiqHtAQurX35QBAs/repost-the...).

This moral framework can lead to all sorts of suboptimal outcomes, such as employer healthcare mandates that are subsided with tax incentives (though some other interventions, like modest minimum wages can help people without distorting the economy).




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