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Post by cjm on May 22, 2016 16:29:10 GMT
While the human species endorses cooperation (like competition) when it suits it, typifying modern freemarket theory as a crude (attempted) application of "survival of the fittest" dogma, is also misguided. At the same time (IMHO) it also should be recognized that life is about sex, survival and economics. This inevitably leads to competition in some form or another. There is no way to avoid it as a fact. To what extent it can (or should) be ameliorated: THAT is the question.
How Bad Biology is Killing the EconomyThe flaws in the competition-is-good-for-you logic By Frans de Waal ... The competition-is-good-for-you logic has been extraordinarily popular ever since Reagan and Thatcher assured us that the free market would take care of all of our problems. Since the economic meltdown, this view is obviously not so hot anymore. The logic may have been great, but its connection to reality was poor. What the free-marketeers missed was the intensely social nature of our species. They like to present each individual as an island, but pure individualism is not what we have been designed for. Empathy and solidarity are part of our evolution – not just a recent part, but age-old capacities that we share with other mammals. ...
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Post by cjm on May 23, 2016 17:00:46 GMT
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