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People naturally operate more socialistically on a familial and friend basis. Perhaps, when we were more dependent on our local community for goods, services, p
by germinalphrase 6y ago
People naturally operate more socialistically on a familial and friend basis. Perhaps, when we were more dependent on our local community for goods, services, protection, etc. we were more willing to extend this boundary further, but this is not our current economic/social order.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoThere's a famous summary of human nature: people are cooperative, altruistic and non-violent towards their in-group, and distrustful, violent and selfish towards their out-group. I try to look at the long arc of human history as basically the story of how we grow the size of the "in-group" and shrink the size of the "out-group". It isn't easy, but we have made significant progress over the centuries.
- germinalphrase 6y agoI would be interested in some good resources on this if anyone has the background.
- clairity 6y agoHumankind by rutger bregman is a current book on the topic.