In an interesting post exploring the contemporary relevance of John Rawls' political theory, Mark Braund sums up well a key political problem of our times:
'people’s attitudes & behaviours are shaped by their experience of life, and the institutions through which they engage with others. If those institutions reward competitive behaviour, people will behave more competitively. Imagine what would happen if they rewarded cooperation instead'...
@ChrisMayLA6 That is a great argument for letting the market run our societies and not zero-sum political combatants.
@h4890
> That is a great argument for letting the market run our societies
There is no such thing as "the market". There are many markets, at many different scales. They are a good tool for many thing, governance is not among them.
> and not zero-sum political combatants
I'm not sure why zero-sum commercial combatants would be better, and politicians are only zero-sum combatants during election season. Businesses are zero-sum combatants by nature, at all times.
