The Pros and Cons of Cooperation

What we do best as a species is take care of one another. That's how we survive as a species. We can hunt larger animals if we cooperate and share the meat, right? Nobody's going to cooperate on a mammoth hunt if we're not sharing the meat afterwards. You know, these things are built into us over hundreds of thousands of years. And we live in a time in which there's a conflict because, you know, we still teach kids this... Exploitation is the goal. There's a weird disconnect between the values, sort of eternal values of our species and the values of contemporary society.

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