What's powerful about this way of thinking is that it abstracts away from individuals, and allows us focus on the properties of the system that are causing different types of behavior. In the process, it suggests completely different types of solutions to a lot of big, thorny problems. It asks us to stop thinking about the players, and get to work

“It would be bold, generative, and generous to consider what it would mean to design a socioeconomic system that does not require a ‘scored society.’ ” Can you imagine an economy free of the eugenics imagination??