Written by Laurie Penny on Wired.
“The diseases that are most successful in the coming century will, as always, be the diseases that exploit our major failure modes and popular delusions.
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If you design a world economy that rewards self-interest and makes altruism unaffordable, it’s unsurprising that some people start acting like they’re in the prisoner’s dilemma.”
Read ‘Panic, Pandemic, and the Body Politic’ on the Wired site.