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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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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

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