Maturing is realizing the Karmelo Anthony got what he deserved and Chud The Builder is getting what he deserves.
It’s not a race thing.
It’s a common sense thing.
McConaughey just stumbled into the most studied result in game theory and presented it as a hunch about being a good neighbor.
In 1980, a Michigan political scientist named Robert Axelrod ran a tournament. He invited mathematicians and economists to submit strategies for a game where you repeatedly choose to cooperate with someone or screw them over. Fourteen entries, some hundreds of lines of code. The one that won was four lines: cooperate on the first move, then copy whatever the other person just did.
He ran it again with 62 entries, everyone knowing it had already won. Nobody could beat it.
The traits that made it win: never defect first, punish defection, forgive fast, stay predictable. "Slowed down, let her in" is line one of that program.
Here is the part Matthew got right without knowing the math. The reason cooperating first wins, and doesn't just feel nice, comes down to what theorists call the shadow of the future. Be generous to a stranger you'll never see again and you eat the cost for nothing. Be generous to someone you'll keep running into and the move pays itself back across every interaction left to come.
He thought he was playing a one-shot game with an anonymous driver on a highway. He was playing a repeated game with a neighbor. Same road every day, same faces, decades in front of both of them.
That is why the favor returned in 15 minutes, and why it keeps returning. A highway full of strangers looks like the one place generosity gets wasted. In a small enough world there are no strangers, only people who haven't repaid you yet.
It's been uncovered that Black inmates in the Alabama prison system are having their organs illegally harvested and their families are not being notified.
When Rob Kenney was 14, his dad sat all the kids down and told them he was done being a parent. He'd met someone new. The younger ones could move in with older siblings or get put in foster care. Then he walked out the door.
So Rob went to live with his big brother Rick, who was 23, just married, and squeezed into a small mobile home. There was no dad around to show him the basics, how to tie a tie, shave, jump-start a dead car, unclog a drain. He taught himself, slowly, getting it wrong plenty of times before he got it right.
Then 2020 hit. Everyone stuck inside during lockdown. Rob, a dad himself by now, set up a camera in his house and started filming those same lessons. He named the channel "Dad, How Do I?" Every video opens the same way: "Hey Kids." He figured maybe 30 or 40 people might watch. If it helped even one of them, he'd be happy.
His first video was how to tie a tie. He thought he was just teaching a knot. Instead, grown adults wrote in to say they sat there crying through the whole thing, because nobody had ever taught them, and watching a dad do it on a screen broke something open.
Someone shared his story on Twitter in May 2020 and called it the purest thing online. Within a week that post had around 2.3 million likes. His channel went from a few hundred subscribers to 1.85 million in two months.
Today "Dad, How Do I?" has more than 5 million subscribers. People mail Father's Day cards to a PO box he had to set up, because so many of them asked where to send one. He wrote a book passing on those same lessons, along with the advice he wishes someone had given him, and quit his day job to make the videos full time. The kid whose own dad walked out at 14 grew up to be the closest thing to a father that millions of people ever had.
@TheNetDaily There You Guys Go
$1,000/Sec = $86.4M/Day, ~$31.5B/Year
$90K/5 Min = $25.9M/Day, ~$9.46B/Year
$900K/Day = ~$328.5M/Year
Or $10B Right Now As A One-Time Lump Sum.