• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    22 days ago

    ‘Rational self interest’ is just being selfish.

    *Irrational self interest. Rational self interest would still involve improving the worker’s lives due to the support structure that a community brings

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      21 days ago

      To sum up, “rational self interest” is screwing others over for your own benefit as long as you make the calculation that it won’t come back to bite you. It works for you until you make a miscalculation and the likelihood of a miscalculation increases as you screw more people over. A greedy person benefiting from the support structure will not properly factor in that benefit and will assume they can go without, hence the widening gap between the rich and the poor. They’re essentially living in another world and cannot see reality for what it is.