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Self-Serving Doesn’t Work
We evolved to know this, but now pretend it does
Humans are not inherently self-serving. But it seems that once agriculture allowed our tribes to grow big and anonymous enough to get away with it, and even get celebrated for it, self-serving became attractive to some.
I’m not sure whether that segment of the population has lost some degree of the generosity and selflessness that were hardwired into humanity by natural selection (see the 10,000 year Explosion), or if it is just a confused compensatory reaction to the pain that our disconnected modern world deals out. I suspect the latter.
Either way, it’s hard to know what to do about it. Billionaires aren’t going to easily give up their spoils, and since they write the laws and now have the most frightening power of surveillance ever created, it’s gonna be tough. Even though a much more fun and connected (not to mention safe and sustainable) world awaits them too.
