Philosophical
Why Disinterest Pays
People trust sacrifice over strategy. The most powerful political and moral movements were started by those who lost more than they gained. The costliness of the act is the signal. Altruism without pain is just branding.
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The thinker
Political economist of motive
Krzysztof Pelc is a professor at Oxford and author of Beyond Self-Interest, a sharp challenge to the foundational assumption of economic theory: that humans act primarily out of self-interest. His work reveals how real trust, commitment, and meaning are often formed not through calculated gain, but through irrational, costly acts of disinterest. His ideas draw from economics, political theory,…
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