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I doubt that. Early humans had to cooperate and share. They couldn't afford this parasitism. We still can't afford it, but for most individuals it's easier to j
by thinkfurther 9y ago
I doubt that. Early humans had to cooperate and share. They couldn't afford this parasitism. We still can't afford it, but for most individuals it's easier to just let it go rather than to follow them to their nest and smoke them out.
- WalterSear 9y agoMost early humans cooperated and shared because they spent their entire lives surrounded by the same a few hundred people. It's the same today. We still cooperate and share with about a few hundred closest people, and for everyone else, we have capitalism. Whenever the two meet, we shock-horror a bit about the callousness of others, and then we go back to treating everyone outside our Dunbar number as an object to extract resources from. I don't want to suggest that it's biologically inevitable, but that we aren't going to overcome it until we start recognizing the blind spots in our cognition and empathy.
- thinkfurther 9y ago> Most early humans cooperated and shared because they spent their entire lives surrounded by the same a few hundred people. That and, as far as I understand, when they went hunting, only a few get lucky, and those couldn't eat all the meat themselves before it spoiled.