Exploiting willing freedom yields greater returns than coercion

Evidence

The rulers of a slave society - assuming that they do not mind what slaves think - can restrict their trust in the slaves and in the viability of their society to the belief that the slaves are not going to commit mass suicide. They simply trust to the fact - not invariably borne out by historical evidence - that most humans, even under extreme conditions, have a preference ordering which ranks life before death. Here, trust must be understood in the limited sense of trusting the effectiveness of coercion as a motive for cooperation (see Williams, this volume). — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2725 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Coercion can substitute for trust when freedom is restricted — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2725; Exploiting voluntary freedom yields higher returns than coercing labor — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 16

Related

• Coercion can substitute for trust when freedom is restricted (similarity 0.90)
• Exploiting voluntary freedom yields higher returns than coercing labor (similarity 0.83)
• Coercion reduces rather than builds mutual trust among unwilling subjects. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Coercion can substitute for trust when freedom is restricted #responds-to (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2725