Elon Musk makes $43 Billion offer for private buyout of Twitter

HoustonSaint68 said

Ok, so that's all fine and good, but that's why it's merely an introductory philosophical concept.

The next step proceeds from: "ok, so what?". The "conclusion" that humans do everything from a big-bang-point of self-interest gives zero insight into the deeper question of whether human beings are inherently good, bad, totally malleable, or something else altogether.

But, a different thread.

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Sure and there are many philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience books and papers written on these subjects. I think on the whole that literature indicates humans are at core self-interested. And, to some extent, the entire concept of "good" and 'bad" is a human construct created by society to control our baser instincts (largely by the mechanism of religion), which goes into all kinds of metaphysical questions about whether Rationalism or Empiricism is correct. But yes, beyond the scope of this thread.