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Charismatic costs. 

Concentrated, identifiable costs that stick in a persons brain vs unnamable distributed benefits. 

Nuclear vs fossil fuels, free trade vs protectionism

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Interesting comparison! Similarly offers mass benefits but comes with some centralized elite governing access

I’m into this. You should write something!

And you can associate the cost with a face and name.

I made up “charismatic costs” from charismatic megafauna. Same concept. People like the T. rex and they like to feel for the guy who worked at a factory for 30 years before it got shut down. There’s something super compelling and ominous about nuclear that’s not there for other stuff