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The challenge is overcoming evolutionary hardwired survival instincts. It’s easy to want “a better world” when you’re in good conditions. When you’re in a war
by halfcat 3y ago
The challenge is overcoming evolutionary hardwired survival instincts.
It’s easy to want “a better world” when you’re in good conditions. When you’re in a war zone, you’ll lie, cheat, steal, pollute, backstab, and whatever else it takes, to survive.
And the problem is, even if that’s not you, it’s someone. And you’ll never convince everyone to do the right thing. And whoever is willing to cut corners will outcompete you.
The only way to make the world better is through the rare games that, even when people act in the most self-interested way possible, things still improve.
Take capitalism, technology, bitcoin. Even a bad actor whose only goal is hookers and blow on their yacht, will unknowingly produce something of value through a business, making some technology, or enabling a decentralized currency.