From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Thu, 8 Aug 2024, Richmond wrote:   
      
   > oldernow  writes:   
   >   
   >> On 2024-08-08, D  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>> True. The only system ever discovered that turns egoism   
   >>>>> into benefits for everyone! =)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Those benefits tend to be outpaced by the anti-benefits   
   >>>> of egoism.   
   >>>   
   >>> Oh yes, because what we have today are markets controlled   
   >>> to a large extent by politics. Politics is basically a   
   >>> zero sum game, beacuse politics never produces anything,   
   >>> it just steals and divide the spoils.   
   >>>   
   >>> Eliminate politics, leave the market in peace, and there   
   >>> will be peace.  Politics is basically the arena, or perhaps   
   >>> better, the circus, of the ego.   
   >>   
   >> Politics is an emergent property of egos interacting,   
   >> ego thus obviously more fundamental/root in a cause/effect   
   >> sense.   
   >>   
   >> Eliminating politics merely eliminates leaves, which simply   
   >> grow back unless/until the root is eliminated.   
   >   
   > Why did the ego come into existence in the first place?   
   >   
      
   I don't think anyone knows. An emergent random side effect of evolution   
   once brains reached a sufficient level of complexity?   
      
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