Nonzero
Robert Wright argues that biological and cultural evolution both tend toward greater cooperation, because more of life’s interactions become non-zero-sum over time. From hunter-gatherers to the internet, he reads human history as a story of growing interdependence.
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Anne-Marie Slaughter
Wright sees human interactions as a Nonzero sum. While primitive systems might have run on dog-eat-dog or an-eye-for-an-eye zero-sum interactions, where I win means you lose, the story of human society is a story of people coming together and discovering it doesn’t have to be zero sum. Human interaction can be positive sum. We can cooperate in ways so that everybody wins.
Interview · May 2018
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