Co-operation when you least expect it

HT Alex

Nice piece in PNAS by that man Dirk Helbing (AGAIN) & Wenjian Yu that suggests even in the most unlikely circumstances (i.e. in a population of disloyal selfish agents with poor memories) that cooperation and social order will emerge.

Timely, given the UK Co-op grocery business continues to grow (and the financial services business also). But maybe this kind of mutual sentiment isn't so unexpected, right now.

Maybe we just want to be together…

Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr Individualist with your Anglo-Saxon cultural assumptions about us humans being independent, self-determining agents…