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Rational Self-Interest (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by yellow_matter_custard@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

No it in fact is not. Selfishness causes any number of negative consequences - suffering, hostility, crime, conflict, rebellion, war, death… So it’s bludgeoningly obviously irrational, and therefore cannot be rational self interest.

for 99% of people yes. but if you happen to be at the very top of the ladder and if things are broken enough you can be self interested into destroying the world. Fact is the guillotines aren't being rolled out. The protests that happen are pretty consistently swatted with barely a weeks hindrance to the years between them. We all suffer the consiquences of the olligarchy, the ones making the laws and decisions are largely above those hardships.