Viewing profile — adamchalmers

I agree. This problem is still useful though, because to analyse a lot of counterfactual muggers, you must be able to analyse one mugger!

The point of paradoxes like this is to demonstrate that even in our incredibly simple toy models of agents, we still run into issues. These paradoxes help point out weaknesses of t…

Specifically, he calls for a global tax on all capital, regardless of whether it's real estate, financial assets, homes, bonds, bank accounts. That way people can't get around it b…