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Replying to @PoisonAero
I'll grant that this may be more cultural than genetic (it's hard to separate), but clearly cultural selection also exists.
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Replying to @HbdNrx @PoisonAero
If memes catch on telling you to love everyone (Christianity comes to mind), that could help a lot when it comes to large scale business
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Replying to @HbdNrx
I think European exceptionalism was both genetic and cultural, but the explanation in terms of lower "clannishness" is wrong.
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Replying to @PoisonAero @HbdNrx
Loving everyone wouldn't help big business (capitalism). Instead, that meme leads to communism and virtue signaling.
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Replying to @PoisonAero
How can you have big business if you don't have widespread trust? Maybe you would say that widespread trust requires widespread
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Replying to @HbdNrx
The state. You impose trust using state power. Police, a justice system, etc. The state changes the payoff matrix in the prisoner's dilemma.
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Replying to @PoisonAero
If you put a bunch of very nice Swedes on an island, I expect they'll do quite well with a minimal state. Not true for all groups
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Replying to @HbdNrx
People are different, but Swedes wouldn't be able to cooperate on a large scale without state coercion.
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I think they'll spontaneously organize into a rather minimal state. (maybe swedes aren't libertarian enough for this, but some groups are)
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