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In reply to the discussion: Cornel West & company explain why they are socialists.. [View all]Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)24. Science usually says otherwise.
We evolved as a species because of our shortcomings as primates-we had to form working bands to survive. Here's a study you might like:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111013121519.htm
ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2011) Recent studies have shown that chimpanzees possess many of the cognitive prerequisites necessary for humanlike collaboration. Cognitive abilities, however, might not be all that differs between chimpanzees and humans when it comes to cooperation. Researchers from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen have now discovered that when all else is equal, human children prefer to work together in solving a problem, rather than solve it on their own. Chimpanzees, on the other hand, show no such preference according to a study of 3-year-old German kindergarteners and semi-free ranging chimpanzees, in which the children and chimps could choose between a collaborative and a non-collaboration problem-solving approach.
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The research team presented 3-year-old German children and chimpanzees living in a Congo Republic sanctuary with a task that they could perform on their own or with a partner. Specifically, they could either pull two ends of a rope themselves in order to get a food reward or they could pull one end while a companion pulled the other. The task was carefully controlled to ensure there were no obvious incentives for the children or chimpanzees to choose one strategy over the other. "In such a highly controlled situation, children showed a preference to cooperate; chimpanzees did not," Haun points out.
The children cooperated more than 78 percent of the time compared to about 58 percent for the chimpanzees. These statistics show that the children actively chose to work together, while chimps appeared to choose between their two options randomly. "Our findings suggest that behavioral differences between humans and other species might be rooted in apparently small motivational differences," says Haun.
It is rare to find a human out of work who wishes to stay that way. Unless he's a Prince or some other scion.
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white_wolf
Jul 2012
#5
Oooh, I have the Gungeon trashed, so I can't check, but I'll bet you might be right!
Starry Messenger
Jul 2012
#6
This actually touches on a larger debate in socialist circles that I won't get too much into
white_wolf
Aug 2012
#38
Well you probably wouldn't have a company organized like a capitalist corporation.
white_wolf
Aug 2012
#42
Sure it is. Democracy itself is cumbersome at times. Dictatorships are much more efficent.
white_wolf
Aug 2012
#44
I'm one of the ones that think things should be a bit more centralized.
Starry Messenger
Aug 2012
#46