Agency

When you're agencymaxxing, others become more interested in helping

you because you're a good investment. You, the agencymaxxer, apply a

multiplier to others' help so that their help goes further than if

they applied that help to someone who wastes it by not helping

themself. People like when their help makes a meaningful difference

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Different academic disciplines have different takes on the word “agency”:

• Philosophy sees agency as the capacity to act intentionally and rationally to bring about change in the world.


• Psychology views agency as a person’s capacity to exert control over their environment and experience a sense of ownership over their actions.


• Sociology understands

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It has become hard to be intentional about the future — to imagine and shape the worlds we want to live in — because the modern state rarely assumes any role in doing that or in encouraging us to do it either.