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Yep was thinking about that. It has its advantages. Most humans need incentives to be good.
by AznHisoka 8y ago
Yep was thinking about that. It has its advantages. Most humans need incentives to be good.
- dTal 8y agoI think this is 1) untrue and 2) an extremely hazardous belief. If you try and reward altruistic behaviour, you corrupt it. Altruism becomes indistinguishable from self-interest, and it becomes impossible to trust anyone. China, by the way, is in a fairly horrifying state as far as altruism between strangers goes. I wouldn't look towards it as a model. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-altruism-risky-china https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-altruism-r...
- orthecreedence 8y ago> Most humans need incentives to be good. ...in a system that forces incentive systems onto everybody. Many people will do great things for each other if they don't feel like they're being nickel and dimed for every little god damn thing they do. Our culture has hyper-commoditized almost everything and now we all expect to be compensated for even the smallest things because of it. It's not a natural state of humanity. This is just how we are as a people, culturally.