What the majority of people do IS the right thing. Wisdom of crowds and so on.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-farm.net> wrote: > Geeze, Nick. > You can't make people do the right thing. People have to want to do the > right thing. People don't want to do the right thing. (Speaking in > majority terms now, minority exceptions don't count). Things won't change > until people change. When will that be? Not in our lifetime, people are > slow learners, and relatively stupid, statistically speaking. We're talking > on the evolutionary time scale before the collective good will come before > the individual profit on this particular spec of the cosmos. > --Doug > BTW, I'm a realist. Not a pessimist, nor an optimist. Roger probably > understands. And Steve. I kind of wonder about some of the rest of you, > though. > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
