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And yet he has no explanation for why people will torture other people, to the point of death, for getting quiz answers wrong. This kinda points to his hypothe

And yet he has no explanation for why people will torture other people, to the point of death, for getting quiz answers wrong. This kinda points to his hypothesis of these being outliers as being incorrect. The inherent selfishness, as he himself refers to, of humanity leads to the nasty and brutish behavior. > I would point out that the global poverty has gone down dramatically during capitalism's reign And yet the poverty numbers for the US, one of capitalism's biggest proponents, remain fairly static over the last 4-5 decades, times in which productivity and the GDP have flourished.

answermachines 6y ago
You want,... "not-rundown petite bourgeoisie" But more than 7 billion people have to behave obey... Let me think... huh...sounds... 'dystopian'...? P-:
drivebycomment 6y ago
> And yet he has no explanation for why people will torture other people, to the point of death, for getting quiz answers wrong. From the article: "Bregman's digging into subsequent critiques of the experiment revealed that it was not quite as bad as it seemed: a substantial proportion of the "torturers" had figured out that it was not real. Several more protested that it was wrong. Those who did continue were convinced by the researchers that what they were doing was for the greater good." So Bregman disagrees with your premise. Re: US poverty. https://www.vox.com/2014/12/14/7384515/extreme-poverty-decline https://www.vox.com/2014/12/14/7384515/extreme-poverty-decli... If that's not progress, I don't know what is. Also, the US official poverty rate doesn't take all the social programs (like food stamps, etc) into account. If you do: https://www.nber.org/papers/w26532#fromrss https://www.nber.org/papers/w26532#fromrss the poverty has dropped substantially.