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you've never "coerced" someone to help you move with a six pack and a pizza?No
Not only do I disagree, I rebuke the assertion
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you've never "coerced" someone to help you move with a six pack and a pizza?No
Not only do I disagree, I rebuke the assertion
Brothers in law don’t count, correct?you've never "coerced" someone to help you move with a six pack and a pizza?
No
Not only do I disagree, I rebuke the assertion
Dumb question,
Can the Ports replace the strikers to keep business moving again? Sort of like what the NFL did in 1987?
No - we would have never survived as a species if we were selfishRebuke away. But humans are self-interested creatures that are seldom capable of overcoming that to do anything to benefit others other than in the event that it benefits them too. Why do you think corporations do evil things? It's because they are made up of people with the sole purpose of benefiting themselves. Altruism is an illusion.
Obsolescence is a different problem. Your example is more like newspapers not being able to survive Craigslist no matter how much they dropped their ad rates.robots are taking over fast food jobs too
Should they give back money to keep their jobs?
Would horseshoe makers have kept their jobs if they weren’t so darn overpaid?
Chimp Empire is an interesting look into the primate genus.No - we would have never survived as a species if we were selfish
That ‘evil’ is a learned/socialized response stemming from the many factors that went into play allowing us to horde resources
noAlso, survival is selfish at it's base.
No - we would have never survived as a species if we were selfish
That ‘evil’ is a learned/socialized response stemming from the many factors that went into play allowing us to horde resources
Need to read the rat utopia experiment.No.
Not only do I disagree, I rebuke the assertion.
Selfishness is an evolutionary advantage that has survived because it is the most fit for this world. We joined into groups for selfish reasons, to help ourselves survive, not to help others survive.
This is just moving the goalposts to have ‘selfishness’ be defined as ‘that which helped us survive’No.
Not only do I disagree, I rebuke the assertion.
Selfishness is an evolutionary advantage that has survived because it is the most fit for this world. We joined into groups for selfish reasons, to help ourselves survive, not to help others survive.
That's not coercion, that's incentivizing. Coercion implies force, incentivizing is carrot/stick.you've never "coerced" someone to help you move with a six pack and a pizza?