Re: DECENTRALIZED crypto currency (including Bitcoin) is a delusion (any solutions?)
Consciousness of consequences of bad and good action on other is necessary to have any viable society/economy.
The argument with pleasure seeking can be that there is no higher pleasure that seeing someone else perfecting himself
The argument with pleasure seeking can be that there is no higher pleasure that seeing someone else perfecting himself
That is empathy, which is a phenomenon like "liking chocolate milk, and feeling pain when you hit my toe with a hammer". Empathy is just a positive (or negative!) correlation coefficient between your own happiness and suffering, and the image you have of a specific other being being happy or suffering. If the coefficient is positive, it is called love and friendship ; if the coefficient is negative, it is called hate and jealousy. Point is, empathy usually only matters for a FEW others (family, friends, and a few hated enemies).
In as much as pleasing friends is done to augment your own happiness, that's still nothing else but selfish behaviour ! You use the other one to increase your own good. In as much as torturing an enemy (even if you have to sacrifice things for that) provides you with pleasure, this is the same: you use the enemy to provide you with pleasure, and is of exactly the same selfish nature than making sacrifice and pleasing a lover or a friend to get the "empathy reward".
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Even amazon ceo made good article on how 100% selfish motivation never improve economy. Because having more poor underdeveloped people never bring economic growth. Having more educated and competent persons does. And free market often tend to skip this. And you can say he is not a socialist.
Well, my idea is that if 99% of humanity could drop dead by tomorrow, except my friends and family, and those that do useful things for me, that would be a positive thing for me, because the 70 million people remaining would have much more resources at their disposal than the 7 billion idiots running around on this earth.
Life on earth would be a dream again, with 70 million of us.