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But it is this behavioral model which is at the cold, cruel heart of neoliberal economics, and it is as morally corrosive as it is scientifically wrong because, if we accept at face value that humans are fundamentally selfish, and then we look around the world at all of the unambiguous prosperity in it, then it follows logically, then it must be true by definition, that billions of individual acts of selfishness magically transubstantiate into prosperity and the common good.

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How many times have you been told that real, substantial change isn't possible because most people are too selfish, too stupid or too lazy to try to make a difference in their community?

As long as we believe that people, our own neighbors, are selfish, stupid or lazy, then there's no hope.

Not having someone else to talk to, feeling inadequate, feeling selfish for wanting me-time.

It needs to be constantly contracting, so therefore it's almost selfish.

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