The Biological Reason Socialism Always Fails — Nicholas Wade
5/6/20261 hr 14 min
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First 90 secondsKonstantin Kisin· Host0:00
[instrumental music] You basically did something that I've been trying to explain for a very long time, the biological reasons w- for why communism works. And you give a fascinating example of voluntary communism, which was the kibbutz system in Israel.
Nicholas Wade· Guest0:15
That was a, a, a wonderful natural experiment. Um, so the f- the founders who decided in Israel they would not just start anew, but they would build a whole new world based on a new kind of person who would be a good, unselfish person. It's a very dangerous system when you don't reward people o- on the basis of their merit. This is one of the big problems of not taking human nature seriously and not accepting the fact that we have certain behaviors written into our genome by evolution, uh, because of our survival values. Our instinct is, is entirely warlike. I mean, we have genocide written into our genes.
Konstantin Kisin· Host0:56
Nicholas Wade, welcome to Trigonometry.
Nicholas Wade· Guest1:01
Thanks for having me.
Konstantin Kisin· Host1:02
It's so good to have you on. Uh, Francis and I picked up your book a few days ago. Uh, you know, to be honest, we have to read a lot of books because we interview a lot of people, so it can sometimes feel like a chore, but the moment we opened your book, we were like, "Whoa, give me more of this," 'cause it was so fascinating. You talk... It's called the, the Origin of Politics, and it's about evolution and how our evolutionary history shapes the way we do everything, actually, in a way that we've