Charles Leadbeater on cooperation
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Happened to stumble on this guy whilst browsing through old Ted Talks (here for anyone that’s interested)
‘Humans are more cooperative than other species because we are capable of more fine-grained forms of cooperation: we are prepared to cooperate with strangers, over large distances and times, overcoming obstacles of language and culture. This deeply wired capacity for cooperation will be more important than ever to enable us to create shared solutions to complex challenges, from global financial regulation to ageing and climate change.
‘Yet most of our systems, institutions and models of public policy lock us in to a miserable, impoverished view of ourselves as untrustworthy and selfish. These approaches actively crowd out cooperation, supplanting cooperative solutions with systems that rely on material incentives. They remake the world in their own image.’
http://charlesleadbeater.net/2014/02/its-cooperation-stupid/
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That’s pretty cool. I think through cooperation and knowledge sharing amazing things can be achieved. :)
