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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2024
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People are neither inherently selfish or inherently generous. People are survivors regardless of what is necessary to do so. A human will give the shirt off his back to his neighbor but will spite a customer service worker because they're in a bad mood or feel slighted. Your tribe is your most important social aspect
But it is that selfishness that communism can't control for and that capitalism only dampens the effect of. You need a system that counteracts those selfish tendencies in order to reach lasting stability.
‘A system that counteracts those selfish tendencies’ you mean a system in which: