My position is that people are selfish because they’re raised in a society that rewards selfishness. There’s always going to be outliers but that’s the goal of vanguardism: someone needs to steer the ship while the generational change happens. I don’t know if that’s the best path forward but it is a path and might work better with more safeguards against a Stalin or Mao or Pol Pot type but that’s a hard conversation to have when people aren’t willing to to consider any element of communism.
Maybe. I think people are more selfish the larger the group gets. So if you’re a small tribe, most people will work for the good of the tribe, but if you’re able to easily move between tribes, there’s less downside to selfishness.
So my opinion is we should assume selfishness and design a society around it, and capitalism does a pretty good job at that.
My position is that people are selfish because they’re raised in a society that rewards selfishness. There’s always going to be outliers but that’s the goal of vanguardism: someone needs to steer the ship while the generational change happens. I don’t know if that’s the best path forward but it is a path and might work better with more safeguards against a Stalin or Mao or Pol Pot type but that’s a hard conversation to have when people aren’t willing to to consider any element of communism.
Maybe. I think people are more selfish the larger the group gets. So if you’re a small tribe, most people will work for the good of the tribe, but if you’re able to easily move between tribes, there’s less downside to selfishness.
So my opinion is we should assume selfishness and design a society around it, and capitalism does a pretty good job at that.