"Evolution’s great lesson is not “survival of the fittest,” but “survival of the most cooperative.”

[missgayle@urbanists.social]

"Evolution’s great lesson is not “survival of the fittest,” but “survival of the most cooperative.”

For 500 years, we have been led to believe that capitalism is the only kind of economy that works. But it is not working. Its leaders are destroying nature, causing climate chaos...all in the name of selfish capital gain.

If that is “working”, we need something better."

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-07-07/economics-of-kindness-capitalism-tells-us-we-are-selfish-evolution-tells-a-different-story/

#DeGrowth #Community #Sustainability #History #Evolution #Resist #Capitalism #Economy #Local

[pr_ret_lutz@jasette.facil.services]

@MissGayle

Survival of the fittest

Survival of the most fitting (into its biome)

Read on Tom Murphy's blog "Do The Maths"

[shonin@c.im]

@MissGayle "Fittest" wasn't a wrong choice of word other than that it was almost universally and rather deliberately misunderstood. As a cooperator I am fittest to avail myself of the resilience multiplier called "cooperation."

[punishmenthurts@autistics.life]

@MissGayle
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Yes, the point of competition is to find a way to AVOID it. They might point to territoriality as “competing for,” space or something, but the point of having your own territory is so you don’t have to compete for everything all day long, it’s a solution for competition.
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As is cooperation. We had risen above simple competition eras ago, and now they’re dragging us back into it.

[woozle@toot.cat]

@pr_ret_lutz @MissGayle

They never mention that "fitness" in a social species requires "ability to work co-operatively with others", and that this is in fact humanity's strong point.