• NSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 hours ago

    people share goods and culture naturally. the prevailing historical models are cooperative. anticooperative, competitive societies are rare.

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        22 minutes ago

        You’re obviously looking for an angle where you can point to your “common sense” leading to the conclusion you started with.

        If you wanna talk psychology, the ultracompetitive demands of modern capitalism have to be drilled into each of us from birth, and most of us resist it all the same. Mark Fisher elaborates on this in Capitalist Realism, this learned behavior is in large part responsible for the mental health crisis in the world.