On-chain, The Emperor Wears No Clothes
I'll cut right to the chase: I believe a big reason why many people in this world suffer is that some other people can afford to decide irrationally.
In "Was ist Autorität?" (en.: "What is authority?") Bochenski, the author, divides authority into two distinct categories. Authority, he claims, is a relationship between e.g. two parties and a domain, where one party acknowledges the authority of another over the domain.
However, Bechenski makes a remarkable categorization of authorities within the book. He generally divides authority into epistemic and deontic and specifies that:
I find these categories remarkable as they also help to get a clearer picture when, for example, working with software. I'd go even further and say that many conflicts in developing software stem from denying or being unaware of this power dynamic.
If, for example, you browse blog posts on Hacker News, then you'll often come across the type of developer that hates meetings and their manager. The brisance in the relationship to their manager, I've come to observe, often stems from failing to differentiate between epistemic and deontic authority.
