Note: this is phrased as a “rally people around an idea” kind of post.
Ideally I’d have had time to break this into two posts, one of which more dispassionately discusses the benefits of prioritizing savings (which would have fit the frontpage criteria), and one of which made the more specific claim of the “give 1% save 10%”, which was a bit more arbitrary.
I think there’s some cost to jumping straight to the “rally people to your idea” stage (if everyone’s doing it it erodes the epistemic commons). I ended up doing it anyway because I didn’t have much time and found this one easier to write, but in the interest of setting a good example on the new forum wanted to at least acknowledge that.
Note: this is phrased as a “rally people around an idea” kind of post.
Ideally I’d have had time to break this into two posts, one of which more dispassionately discusses the benefits of prioritizing savings (which would have fit the frontpage criteria), and one of which made the more specific claim of the “give 1% save 10%”, which was a bit more arbitrary.
I think there’s some cost to jumping straight to the “rally people to your idea” stage (if everyone’s doing it it erodes the epistemic commons). I ended up doing it anyway because I didn’t have much time and found this one easier to write, but in the interest of setting a good example on the new forum wanted to at least acknowledge that.