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> For example, companies that get a monopoly will rip you off, but only by so much. Sounds like a rare victory of the good over its old nemesis, the perfect. I
by usrusr 9y ago
> For example, companies that get a monopoly will rip you off, but only by so much.
Sounds like a rare victory of the good over its old nemesis, the perfect. I believe that a social environment that can pull this off will have a clear edge in many different ways, e.g. government can work so much better when it can be trusted that power abuse, if it happens, won't be excessive. Much better than pretend-saints who really aren't.
- ForRealsies 9y agoDoes empathy seem to thrive in smaller, homogeneous communities(ex. Japan, Nordic countries)?
- usrusr 9y agoI'd lean towards narrowing that question down to is it the explanation or is it just a confounding factor? Optimism mandates that it should hopefully be the latter. It doesn't take much imagination to assume that celebration of ruthless, "take everything you can" types could (in theory) also be minimized in larger, now mixed communities.