Comment by freen

Societies decide if they are pro-social or anti-social.

Pro-social is more work. It’s harder. It is caring, sensitive, flexible. You have to give a shit because society actively disapproves of and discourages not giving a shit. No one wants to be your friend cus your the asshole who doesn’t give a shit.

Anti-social is easier: you don’t have to care. My industrial effluent will cause cancer? I don’t care. My bigass truck is more likely to kill pedestrians? I don’t care. Masking during a pandemic jmight save someone else’s life? I don’t care.

Everyone wants to live in a prosocial society. Certainly many people complain about the fact that society isn’t pro-social, yet themselves are deeply anti-social.

“No one wants to work! Do you pay a living wage? Benefits? Heck no, my business wouldn’t be as profitable”

Unfortunately, the ability to freeload off the collective relatively more pro-social past is coming to a rapid end.