• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    Self interest isn’t greed.

    For example, philanthropy is usually done entirely in self interest.

    Read about mutual aid. “Survival of the fittest” isn’t the only mode of evolution, even in other animals/organisms in nature.

    • Mr_WorldlyWiseman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      19 hours ago

      Right, but greed is just the term for self-interest that is harmful to others. My point was that the “non-harmful” greed that knitwitt was talking about is the same constructive self interest that drives society in both capitalist and socialist systems.