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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
The Relationship Between Positive Some and Negative Some
The long arc of history is that humans have been more and more positive sum in their dynamics. It's key to underlying the kind of pink or rasling narrative on the things that are getting better but it's also true that the group that does more coordination or positive some type behavior within itself can do better in a war with an outgroup. The net effect of the total human social activity was debasing the ecosystem that it depended upon so all of them including the positive some ones still externalize the cost to nature.
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