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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by ionised on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:33AM (#17966844)
Why not?

We are a social species that attained our dominant position on the planet through co-operation.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:48AM (#17966920)
In fact we're a social species on top of an interconnected ecosystem which only started being interesting when cells worked out how to cooperate.

All complex life on earth exists because of cooperation. Competition drives some feature drift, but the biggest step changes happened because of the increase in complexity made possible by cooperation.

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