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I'm not sure what you mean by "sticky".

It is a very interesting question as to to the role of empathy in human affairs; how ordinary human empathy manifests (or doesn't) in large institutional structures, etc. I've contemplated writing a book on the subject.

We call "low-empathy humans" sociopaths and often end up putting them in jail. Corporations are quite often set up to encourage sociopathic behavior, partly because they are free from the constraints of empathy. But not always. Corporations are made up of humans and the well-behaved ones have ways of letting humanity influence their actions and governance; evil ones don't.

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Of course not, it's TGGP snark.

MTraven, I'm skeptical how sticky empathy is even just with individual human agents. Then there's the illusion of control problem, like if humans even have the power to get rid of low-empathy humans (a paradoxical problem?), corporations, or hypothetical alien invaders.

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