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>What this really indicates, bot or not, is that once you educate people, they will act in their self (and more importantly, self+others) interests. That's an
by jimmaswell 10y ago
>What this really indicates, bot or not, is that once you educate people, they will act in their self (and more importantly, self+others) interests.
That's an idealistic sentiment that's unfortunately not actually true. There are abundant examples if you look at politics or gambling.
- loup-vaillant 10y agoGambling is a (serious) game, where you're totally supposed to eat you neighbour to get on top. Politics works on a heavily skewed sample of power-hungry people. Politicians are nothing like their people. Most are among the top 1%, which is a weird bunch: they are visible, powerful, don't have the same incentives, and don't live under the same social pressures as the rest of us.