teatree said:
This might come as a shock to you, but part of the reason homo sapiens have been so successful compared to other primates is because we're socialistic.
This is untrue. Socialism isn't capable of economic calculation and rational resource allocation as markets are.
What little benefit came under socialist systems is a priori either inefficient or an accident.
Also, I don't watch documentaries against or for my point of view. I have never seen a documentary that wasn't propaganda, and they are literally the lowest form of intellectual media people consume to feel good about themselves.
LOL - For the majority of our species existence, there was no "economic calculation". If you think our ancestors duking it out against the Neanderthals for domination of Europe 43,000 years ago, were "calculating" to "rationally allocate resources" you are off base. They were simply trying to survive - and that meant sharing, watching each other's backs and a good dollop of altruism. The obsession with sharing, culture and clan behaviour was absent from the Neanderthal groups, and they died out (because there was no-one to help when the inevitable disasters arose).
Socialiasm is just that - sharing, thinking about fairness and altruism.
The documentary I posted wasn't about socialism - it was about
primates. I thought it was especially apt because your ethos of "I will only co-operate for selfish reasons" is the Chimp philosophy - and that's the reason they're behind cages and we're not, despite their superior problem solving abilities.
A Chimp would look at the Typhoon disaster in the Philippines and think, nothing to do with me, there is no economic benefit in sharing some money with them. A human looks at it, is appalled, feelings of empathy and altruism rise to the fore, and donations are sent - we're
sharing our resources. This is what we've been doing since we first evolved 170,000 years ago - and it's why the species survived so well - because we share and have each others backs.
10,000 deaths in one disaster sounds huge - but there are more deaths every day from lack of healthcare. So a shared system of healthcare is simply the same principle of helping but on an every day basis.
This minority trend of "I don't need the group, I don't need help and therefore I won't give help, I don't depend on my nation nor my clan" - it's ... interesting. A concerted effort to dehumanise us and chimpify the species instead. Perhaps there's less homo sapien in you than me!