I wonder how much of that population overlaps with wikipedia editors. The proportions are consistent so it might be, in part at least, a public good producer impulse.

Yeah, many of the public goods experiments find that certain people really love doling out punishment. I guess the species needs a few of them, but doesn't "want" very many.

Undisciplined

It so clearly explains the 1% rule we see with downzappers.

k00b

econ

Punishment is a Public Good

Thanks. It's fun to write these kinds of posts, but they're more time consuming, so I can't do them very often...for now.