• intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    And yet give two kids a cookie and a knife and watch how carefully they divide that cookie. Fairness is a very old instinct.

    • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Humans are for the most part inherently fair and cooperative.

      But sociopaths aren’t, so they think no one else will do anything without the threat of starving to death.

      And the sociopaths have been making the rules since the mid 80s.

      Untold damage done to humanity and civilization just so a handful of old white men can be ridiculously, unspendably rich.

      And we are taught to idealize them.

        • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          6 months ago

          We had a brief progressive period where citizens were protected and supported, I was referring specifically to the reagan-thatcher era.

          Honestly the entire world was going much more progressive then, even the middle east.

          Neoliberalism and oil greed started the current fire we are roasting in. And it started with reagan