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The majority certainly doesn’t choose the active misery of others, and on the scale of the Lord of the Flies setting, humans have consistently shown collaboration and mutual aid. We’ve documented many instances of stranded groups, and even some people that volunteered to be stuck on a raft together for months, and they always choose to work together, despite their differences. Capitalism, fascism, and radical individualism/nationalism are the root of the societal scale evils, because they’re ideologies that propagate in the hands of the few that are willing to benefit at the cost of the many. Humans have not always lived under capitalism.

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WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s possible that despite a “good” nature, humans still have a few, but very fatal flaws that cause them to keep electing the worst people. This is a key problem that makes every other characteristic irrevelanr.

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- Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ve always appreciated Douglas Adam’s take on this:
  
  The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
  
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  - WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Welp, vote for me! I can’t do worse!
    
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