Cooperating socially
Description
Cooperating socially involves individuals or groups actively working together to achieve shared objectives, resolve conflicts, and address common challenges. This strategy fosters mutual support, resource sharing, and coordinated action, thereby overcoming isolation, inefficiency, and duplication of efforts. By building trust and facilitating communication, social cooperation enables communities to pool strengths, implement collective solutions, and enhance resilience in the face of social, economic, or environmental problems.
Claim
Examples from biology and economics show that there are all sorts of ways to make the individual interest concordant with the collective -- so long as we recognize the need to.
Application of game theories show that where cooperation among individuals does evolve, it does so through tit-for-tat. A cautious exchange of favours enables trust to be built upon a scaffolding of individual reward. Cooperation can then emerge. The collective interest can be served by the pursuit of selfish interests.
Counter-claim
Societies are sums of their individuals, each acting in rational self interest, and policies that assume otherwise are doomed. This is why it is so hard to make a communist ideal work.
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Metadata
Database
Global strategies
Type
(B) Basic universal strategies
Subject
- Society » Social
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Language
English
1A4N
J3438
DOCID
12034380
D7NID
214244
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Last update
May 12, 2022