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or maybe banks, and more specifically people who work at banks, should not be incentivized to screw their clients at every opportunity. which is to say, we shou
by deciplex 3y ago
or maybe banks, and more specifically people who work at banks, should not be incentivized to screw their clients at every opportunity. which is to say, we should not have a legal, fiscal, and political regime which encourages or excuses this behavior. and, as people, we should not tolerate or accept it
you are, on the one hand, calling for "community" to provide for assistance and compassion and to respect basic human dignity. then, on the other, you accept and normalize this notion that all human interaction is explicitly transactional, and even adversarial. these are orthogonal goals.
- dkarl 3y agoThere's a Nobel Peace Prize waiting for you if you can solve the problem at that level.
- deciplex 3y agoNot really. The notion that all human interaction is transactional and adversarial is relatively new, and the idea that this is actually good and should be encouraged is even newer. It only seems like an iron law of human nature because individualistic thinking is so prevalent in the West and especially the US and the UK, while models of human behavior that even remotely orient around collective goals, behavior, and action, are discouraged and often regarded as something like extremism. The hardness of the problem is borne of powerful actors making it such: there is nothing inherently difficult about it.