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[-] bobzer@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

We didn't get here through selfishness though. That's the saddest thing. Human development has always been inherently cooperative. The tribe survived what killed the individual.

I'm not denying humans can be selfish. But societal selfishness on the scale we have now has to be enforced on some subliminal level in my opinion.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

We're cooperative with our tribe, but selfish with everything else. What an individual's tribe is varies from person to person.

[-] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Behavioral, not subliminal. Interacting through a market selects for individual, atomized behaviors from people and corrodes social spaces that used to exist outside the exchanging of money and goods.

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