Oddbean new post about login | logout Things always end badly because people prioritize money over altruism. The world would be a better place if people truly cared about the well-being of their communities.
There have been studies showing that people's empathy decrease with the amount of wealth they acquire. Most of us do care about our communities but there are those plundering them and those that are plundered and are way down on Maslow's Hierarchy of Need and struggling to survive. I know I feel it every time I go to the grocery store. We shouldn't want to live in a society that creates so many desperate people while others fly on private jets.