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• samat 8y ago
  So people think twice before doing stupid things for their own local gains?
  • coldtea 8y ago
    That was supposed to be the "great engine" of capitalism dogma. That self-interest, and doing things for one's local gains, ends up to the benefit of everybody. It started with Adam Smith: ""It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages"." and ended up in ever increased praises of self-interest (Ayn Rand, etc) over communal values and morality.
    • gerbilly 7y ago
      Some say Adam Smith was the last virtue ethicist. I find it amusing that so many people read his "Wealth of Nations" and founded edifices on it, while conveniently ignoring his other book: "The Theory of Moral Sentiments"¹ 1: Relevant quote: “How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.”