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On Ayn Rand, Cooperation, And Successful Societies - David Sloan Wilson

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Inverse Correlation of Inequality and Cooperation

David Frum: Multi-level selection framework predicts that inequality and cooperation are inversely correlated. He says it also explains inter-species variation in non-human species, all the way back to the origin of life for heaven's sakes. Frum: When societies are inclusive, then they tend to work well as societies; when they become despotic and authoritarian, they only work for the elites.

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