What isn't the result of politics? This is a bad explanation—how is there so little will to act in rational self interest?

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pfdietz 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

Everyone, or at least almost everyone, acts according to personal interests. There's a whole branch of political science, Public Choice Theory, that deals with this. Where did you get this idea that altruism was common?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice

	▲	lazyasciiart 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		How did you get the idea they think anyone is being altruistic? Usually the complaint that people won’t vote in rational self interest is suggesting that people are voting based on irrational evaluations of their self interest: for the benefit of their unlikely future selves.