Mycorrhizal NetRule

BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 482 points –

Recommended Readings:

  • The Philosophy of Social Ecology by Murray Bookchin.
  • Mutual Aid by Pyotr Kropotkin.
  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin (fiction)
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Altruism is not without reward, even if it seems like it is. No one acts selflessly for no reason, they do so because they are rewarded by their body with dopamine and other "reward" hormones - i.e. because it feels good to do so.