Are human beings fundamentally good or fundamentally bad?
Are people mostly generous, or are they mostly selfish?
Over the centuries, many of our leading lights have taken the view that people are basically selfish.
On average, the participants spent more than $6,400 of it to benefit others, including almost $1,700 on donations to charity.
Sounds pretty generous to me.
Persons:
Machiavelli, Gordon Tullock, Gene, Richard Dawkins, “, Ryan J, Dwyer, William J, Brady, Elizabeth W, Dunn, Chris Anderson
Organizations:
TED