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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cooperation is beneficial to each individual's survival when most in the population are cooperative. Pragmatic self-interest is beneficial to each individual's survival when most in the population are selfish and pragmatic. I think most people tend to be cooperative, but there are plenty who will opportunistically fuck over cooperative people. The results would probably depend on the tendencies of the majority of the individuals in that situation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It depends entirely on how much established power the individual fucking over the others has.

If it's as ephemeral as holding a seashell, they'll probably get their shit beat in. But if it's far more established and hierarchical, yeah they'll end up with more power over the others.