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Tainted good

Making someone else better off without making any other person worse off, that can only be a good thing, right? Well, not quite, it seems.

Koen Smets
6 min readMar 10, 2023

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Was Robin Hood, the English folk hero, the noble bandit who “robbed from the rich and gave to the poor” a good guy? Being generous to the less well-off would certainly appear to be a good thing. But stealing…

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Koen Smets

Accidental behavioural economist in search of wisdom. Uses insights from (behavioural) economics in organization development. On Twitter as @koenfucius