Evolution made us cheats, now free-riders run the world and we need to change
Evolution made us cheats, now free-riders run the world and we need to change, new book warns
No its forced cancerous capitalism!!!
We lost the ability to exile sociopaths from the group and instead allowed them to breed. It's s recent problem.
Exactly. We used to exile or execute them. Modern society is almost tailor made for a sociopath to thrive. They don't have the same kind of internal moral compass that others do, so they don't feel bad when they hurt people. They rely almost exclusively on external deterrents (and incentives). This means harsh sentences and high certainty of detection and conviction. Sadly many people have an ideological aversion to prison, and we're seeing less and less per capita spending on law enforcement and prisons in the West.
We've got a good balance of socialism and capitalism here in Denmark. There are strengths and weaknesses of both. This is why modern societies have some combination of the two. Societies which try to go all in on any one ideology like communism tend to collapse.
Nordic model lets goo!
Capitalism doesn't have to be anti-collective. Under a working legal system, the "Tragedy of the Commons" can be stopped. No country has pure capitalism. Everywhere regulates it. Yes, some of it falls to regulatory capture, but not all, and that waxes and wanes.
Evolution has made us a lot of things, but mostly it made us cooperative beings. We have the ability to do all kinds of good, bad, and gray-area stuff, it's more a matter of which of those behaviors our society pushes us towards.
Correct. Current society brings the worst behavior to the front, but all humans have the capability to behave in many many ways according to environment. Claiming that "Human nature" is a certain way, is one of many very dangerous Capitalist excuses. That way all problems are caused by 'bad humans', not a 'bad ideology'. Problem 'fixed', but ANY form of Capitalism = fighting for your life/livelyhood on a daily basis, or die trying. This mechanism put everyone in a merciless race to the bottom of social behavior - ME first attitude, that harms everyone.
Too bad the rich Oligarchs own humanity's information apparatus..
the Julius Caesar of our time—Donald Trump
Biiiiig doubt right off the bat, but I'll keep reading.
We can’t stop people free-riding, it’s part of our nature, the incurable syndrome… Free riders are among us ... if we accept that we all have this ancient flaw... we can design policies around that and change our societies for the better.
Right, ok, I guess that makes sense. How do we fix it then?
Self-knowledge: ...appearing trustworthy but being selfish can be more beneficial to the individual. We need to recognise that and make a moral choice about whether we try to use people or to work with them.
Ok, sure, for the less-selfish folks who have the capacity for self-awareness. But the more selfish folks already know this because they are exploiting it.
Education: We must teach people to think ethically for themselves, and to give them the tools to do so.
Hmm, big doubt. We've been trying to do this for ages in many societies. Not only has it not been a panacea, the selfish often hijack the education systems themselves.
Policy: Goodman believes that exposing free-riders is more beneficial than punishment.... suggesting that journalistic work exposing exploitation can be as effective... as criminal punishment.
Ok, you lost me. Maybe the book is better, but this is garbage. I don't care about changing behaviour, I want to stop the bleeding. Criminal punishment for the criminally sociopathic! This guy and Susan Collins can keep eachother company...
It's pretty obvious by now that knowing someone is doing wrong is only half the battle. Or more like 10% of it. In the US there's ridiculous healthcare costs, data brokering, tax cuts for the rich - like 90% of Americans know about these things, and yet nothing is done.
I was banned from Reddit for saying that we needed to wipe psychopathy from the gene pool, in yet another exhausting example of how it's more important to never do anything wrong than it is to do something right. So here we are... The human species is on a path to failure, with a chance of nuclear missiles falling soon. The next Winter might never end, but I'm glad the virtue signalers kept me from offending people
Psychopaths with a clinical diagnosis or just people you don't agree with and then you label as "psychopath" for a justified extermination?
How could even be property diagnosed if it's known that a positive diagnosis would mean extermination?
That's a really dangerous approach, more likely to do far more wrong that right.
We need a way to fix everything that's wrong with humankind but I do not think that's the way.
You also should wary of those approaches, in a french revolution scenario of killing all but the true good people the revolutionaries always end up killing each other quite soon.
This is literally eugenics
This is literally us watching the end of our species because they exist.
Can we add sociopathy to that?
I blame the prisoner's dilemma
