Oddkin

One of the main reasons humans have been so successful, as Israeli researcher Yuval Noah Harari points out, is due to what is called “fictive kinship.” Most species hang out only with family. Everybody else is a potential enemy. Good ol’ Homo sapiens have been so successful because we’ve extended the definition of family by using mutually agreed up

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A job is predicated on agreement. (“I will take X dollars for Y hours of work, as long as the arrangement works for me.”) But there are all sorts of other labors that are predicated on duty . Duty to help others, duty to be true to ourselves. (“I’m doing this because it is necessary for me to do it, regardless of whether it works for me or not.”) S... See more