Post #1856422
2026-05-01 19:01 UTC
To be fair, getting people to coordinate gets exponentially harder the more people you have. We evolved to work in relatively small groups, not millions or billions.
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@Rindogang@lemmy.ml 2026-05-01 19:29
Yeah true but humans have evolved to cooperate on a large scale, unlike most primates The violence we see today has nothing to do with culture clashes or a lack of evolution… it’s driven by inequality. And the state wasn’t created to solve coordination problems, it emerged from inequality to protect those who had too much
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-05-01 19:28
And yet society has evolved historically towards greater and greater interconnection, rather than fragmentation. Shouldn’t that say something about how human nature depends more on our ever-changing material conditions, than as something fixed and static?