I'm not sure, I kind of disagreed with both statements you were making, and decided to pick holes in the latter, since it was providing support for the former.
If I'm missing a "wider point", can you elucidate?
If I'm missing a "wider point", can you elucidate?
For example, if my startup is renting servers from AWS our incentives are aligned in the sense that we'll buy more from AWS as we get more users; but unaligned in the sense that if we're using more resources than we need to AWS wouldn't profit from pointing that out. Indeed, even an externality-free positive-sum deal between two parties brings with it a zero-sum deal in deciding how to distribute the benefits.
I'm not explaining things well I think, hope you can make sense of that!