From: dnomhcir@gmx.com   
      
   D  writes:   
      
   > 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?   
      
   I don't think it would be random if everyone has it. It must have some   
   evolutionary advantage.   
      
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