Comment by ggggffggggg
17 hours ago
At scale no group is against its own personal interests. It sucks and it’s hypocritical and annoying, but that’s humans.
17 hours ago
At scale no group is against its own personal interests. It sucks and it’s hypocritical and annoying, but that’s humans.
> At scale no group is against its own personal interests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National...
Don’t you think they thought this was self-interest?
I’m sure they did!
But it clearly wasn’t.
> At scale no group is against its own personal interests.
Of course they are. That's the whole point of scapegoating: convincing people that their problems are caused by another group while actually working against their interests.
Why is it inherently good for a group to be against its own personal interests? Whose interests should a group favor instead?
Programmers are, because we keep encouraging AI to replace us.