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Maybe, but… the cycle can be very long. Everyone in Russia is a skeptic or a grifter, and it’s been that way for decades with no sign of grift being on its way
by apothegm 8mo ago
Maybe, but… the cycle can be very long. Everyone in Russia is a skeptic or a grifter, and it’s been that way for decades with no sign of grift being on its way out.
- w10-1 8mo agoThe vast majority have justified skepticism from long history of abuse. But very few people are grifters, because that would require an expensive roof. missing from my transactional analysis is a general goodwill, the likelihood that someone would help if it didn’t cost much. In Russia, the skepticism is so high that one only helps one’s close friends.
- lukas099 8mo agoSounds like they've reached an evolutionarily stable equilibrium and the conditions that sustain it are stable too.
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- carlosjobim 8mo agoBirth rates are the evidence against this, and this is true for all industrialized nations.
- lukas099 8mo agoWhat I said doesn’t mean that every aspect of their society is stable.