Mastodawn

Imagine if no one treated life as a zero-sum game and only agreed to play in co-op mode?

In any other game, if you found out it was rigged after playing your hardest for years, and folx were like "that's just how it is, and the price of losing can include dying in a gutter from sheer indifference", you'd probably flip the fucking table.

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Graham C

@alice one of the most interesting things about evolution is how cheating occurs in social species. The bigger a group, the better the odds that you won't get caught. The fewer individuals cheating, the greater the benefit to a cheat. In small units like what our ancestors evolved in, it was harder to not get caught. In our society, the cheats took over and made it so even if they get caught they don't get consequences. If we were wasps we would have eaten their heads by now.