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by mach1ne 1273 days ago
What's fundamentally keeping humanity mis-aligned is the fact that our very being is not aligned for altruistic cooperation. Every one of us is painfully aware that we could be living in an utopia right now. Literally the only barrier is the fact that exploitation is (or at the very least appears) more beneficial than cooperation to the exploiter. This barrier is so fundamental because it defines our existence, our agency. It is not baked into our faculty of decisionmaking, it is our faculty of decisionmaking.