The same game with a different name makes people cooperate, and most people cooperate if the game lets them
Hook
Same rules, same payoffs. Call it the Community Game and people cooperate. Call it the Wall Street Game and they do not.
Claim
Same rules and payoffs named the Community Game or the Wall Street Game produced very different cooperation. Many people cooperate in experiments, a smaller share act selfish, and in practically no society is the majority consistently selfish. Making the good choice easy beats paying for it. Convenience matters more than incentives for compliance, and paying people can crowd out voluntary effort.
Story
Benkler’s The Penguin and the Leviathan, in Petar’s reading note: the naming experiment, and the doormen who are hired through networks. No single named person yet; the experiment volunteers are anonymous.
Sources
- Petar’s reading note with quotes, closest to the book
- extraction, second-hand
- extraction, second-hand
- extraction, second-hand
Check before posting
- The reading note says about half cooperate and roughly 30 percent act selfish. An extraction says 50 to 70 percent cooperate. Reconcile with the book.
- Explain the doormen example before using it; the note does not say what it shows.
- Needs a person-level story.
Counterargument
Lab games differ from politics.
Post angles
Facebook (Croatian)
- Ista igra, ista pravila, samo drugo ime: “Igra zajednice” ili “Igra s Wall Streeta”. Ljudi se ponašaju drukčije.
- Većina ljudi surađuje ako sustav to dopušta. Zato javne usluge moraju biti lake za korištenje.
LinkedIn (English)
- Same game, same rules, different name: “the Community Game” or “the Wall Street Game”. People behave differently.
- Most people cooperate if the system lets them. That is why public services have to be easy to use.