minus-squareplactagonic@sopuli.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you believe that most people act according to their own self-interest? Is acting only according to your self-interest a good strategy in life?linkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 days agoIf you look at it from the political side that this is the basic idea of liberal democracy. Everyone votes in their best interest and especially in proportional representation you get some compromise of the interests. Right now at least in politics people act less in their own interest but more of what they emotionally feel like their interest. linkfedilink
plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-22 years agoWhat is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?plus-squareplactagonic@sopuli.xyz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-22 years agomessage-square1linkfedilink
If you look at it from the political side that this is the basic idea of liberal democracy.
Everyone votes in their best interest and especially in proportional representation you get some compromise of the interests.
Right now at least in politics people act less in their own interest but more of what they emotionally feel like their interest.