It is a very interesting and clever slight of intellectual hands to take an animal that could not have survived against the wild beasts of the world unless it worked together as a team, and make that animal think it is in a culture where working for its individual aims is not only in its best interests but is also what making money and doing well, means.
I was told a long time ago that it is what people do for nothing that makes nations work: motherhood is largely unpaid but there is the next generation. Grandparents looking after children while parents work, children caring for their elderly relatives, teachers giving free overtime just to get things done and just about all of us doing more than the job actually entails to make sure we are efficient.
If everything had to be paid for, our much vaulted cultures would collapse.
#thewest
#communism