Posted in The cold, cold heart of Web 2.0
Posted Tuesday 31st July 2007 15:02 GMT
peanut?
"The implications of this are stark. All altruistic, moral, cultural or emotional behaviour becomes reconceived as the outcome of individual calculation. It is no longer just businessmen and traders whose behaviour can be understood in terms of rational self-interest, but that of politicians, parents and neighbours."
You mean that politicians might only lobby for things in their own self-interest rather than for the good of their constituents? *tremulous gasp*
Lucky that was pointed out as I might have continued with my altruistic world view...