On: Patagonia founder gives away the company

[Ferrotin]

There is a guy on the other side of that transaction who would capture that surplus value.

[svnt → Ferrotin]

This assumption promotes the behavior and at the same time assumes everyone in the room is playing for the same ultimate incentive.

The problem is a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop. It seems that only if you can avoid (or want) a tragedy of the commons should you solve that by introducing more self-reinforcing feedback loops.

[Ferrotin → svnt]

The feedback loop here isn’t a problem. It’s what incites production.

[svnt → Ferrotin]

I disagree. It’s the poverty trap that incites production.