We're dependent on technologies that require immense population size and immense storage of knowledge to do anything. Even the most simple activities, feeding ourselves, doing anything, requires this collective knowledge contained by many, many people. And i'm taking the big picture, making a sandwich, would he know how to grow bread? How to grow wheat to make bread? So he have to know how to mill wheat, grow wheat, do the metal urge ye, to make the metal to, you know, make your plows,. It's actually a really scary insid or at least where my mind mind went with that. A so that innuit example may apply a to us on various goods in the future
On this episode we meet with ecological economist and Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration, Josh Farley.
Farley explores the importance of human cooperation in a modern superstructure that incentivizes competition. What role will cooperation play in helping us solve our largest existential problems?
Farley explains the critical social dilemma humans face: How can we grapple with the paradox that individuals are better served to act selfishly, but cooperation among individuals makes everyone better off?
Additionally, Professor Farley helps us distinguish the difference between how a system works, and how we can understand and participate in changing a system.
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