cooperation rule

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Kurzeghast(sp) has a great little video that ends with essentially "there is literally nothing stopping us from having a better healthy post scarcity society but ourselves. There is no reason for it except for the mindset that perpetuates that we can't"
- There are also lots and lots of guns wielded by lots of misguided poor people being paid by very rich people who have nearly infinite resources at their disposal.
  I'm not saying the conclusion is wrong - but it's not easy either.
  
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- "Kurzgesagt" is German for "briefly put."
  
  How about “curtly said”?
  
  Curtness is not implied here.
  
  It certainly is. “Curt” and “brief” are synonymous, at least in some definitions. Curt has an implication of rudeness but that is not strictly so.
  
  It would be simpler to avoid the implication by using a more apt term.
  "In short" would be another less-incorrect translation, but I think "briefly put" is more elegant in conveying the tone of the message.
  
  Well, I think they subtitle it “in a nutshell” which is also more elegant but less literal.
  
  Translation does not require literalness. That's arguably the most elegant given the apt idiom.
  
  I like literal and I like to identify common word origins. Hence my suggestion, even if it’s not idiomatic.
  
  Such literalism comes at the cost of nuance, which is important for good translation.
  
  Yeah I knew I would butcher it
  
  I think the English channel used to be called "in a nutshell"
  
  No, the English Channel used to be called "Oceanus Britannicus"
- There is no reason for it except for the mindset that perpetuates that we can't
  Theoretically every human could just cooperate too, but that's not how humans work. Humans are animals and a lot of society exists to suppress and channel animal behaviours.
  We should try, bit by bit, to get to a post-scarcity society, but we should also acknowledge it's going to be hard and take a long time.
- I fail to see what that has to do with a violent uprising.

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