No Fair!
As a dad of 2 kids, I get this a lot; "No Fair!" I have even heard it from them when they were 4 year old and can barely speak a coherent sentence. I remember to 'pretend of play' any board game with them, and for 30 minutes the two of them will discuss the rules and 'fairness' of the game, without doing any proper gameplay, and then when my time was up (yes, without doing any gameplay) we will close the board game, they will actually later say that they were happy 'playing' the game!
I would get into hive governance, and explained numerous people that 'self-voting' is not really necessary, especially if you post frequently. Some will understand (shall I say accept? because, I can't believe adult humans didn't understand the conflict of interest!), others will not. They will get into great leangth of written argument to 'explain' why they are doing it, and why it was necessary, and why it was 'fair'. Then I or other members of the community will remove their rewards by downvoting (when explanation fails) and they will immediately say downvote NO FAIR!
I was listening to the above podcast in "This American Life" over the weekend. I am a long term listener of the show and I have presented a few of their podcasts at hive blockchain before. This particular edisode is all about 'fairness' from pre-K kids (like the example of my kids) and profressional NBA stars, referees and fans. This second act has Michael Lewis in it (yes the famous one).
In the first act, in order to save teachers time and energy, this partucular pre-K class decided to install a "tattle-phone" in their class room. So whenever kids wanted to do tattle-telling, instead of going to the teacher and wasting her time, they will speak to this phone about their complaints :) I find the idea excellent! Not only this gives us parents a window into their day at school, but it also gave them a space where they can just speak their mind without interrruption or judgement. Often times, for small scale displeasure, that is all most of us need (even adults). We can just share it with someone which we think is 'injustice'!
I am going to list some of examples of tattle telling from the kids below!
Kid 1
Eli told me a lie.
Kid 2
Seamus wasn't sharing with me, and I don't like it, and I'm very upset.
Kid 3
Nathan farted in my face, and I said, yuck, Nathan.
David Kestenbaum
Catch that one? Nathan farted in my face, and I said, yuck, Nathan. But the real crime?
Kid 3
And he didn't say excuse me.
The result from the classroom? Yes, it dropped tattle-telling a lot! Mind you, there is nothing on the other side of the phone. No action is being taken. Its just kids telling their small things into the void :)
I wish we can have something like that on hive. I know there is a community called Rant, Complain, Talk; but I don't think it is used enough. I guess people also sometimes like some actions. This is where the problem start in the real world, especially with the adults.
If every little thing, like a NBA basketball game referee calls, requires a $20M action replay review board, that cost will be transferred to the consumers. Please listen to the podcast to understand what exactly I am saying. This is a same reason a monthly supply of a prescription drug is 10X more expensive in the US compared to say India. Not because labor is cheap (yes that is cheap a bit) but because, here all drug and insurance companies will have to factor in "legal costs" because consumers, if treated 'unfairly', can/will sue them! So they put together an army of lawyers and transfers that cost to us!
Be careful what you wish for! That is all that I am saying.
