Alex Burrett

Rewarding Behaviour (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In developed countries, social cohesion has been sacrificed on the altar of individual gratification. Individuals wanted more and better. Inventors and entrepreneurs rallied to serve our desires. We progressed pulled along by our hunger for improvement. This strategy worked well for centuries. Survival rates benefitted more from technological advances than from recognising individual social contributions. But the paths of 'what we want in the short term' and 'what is good for us in the long term' diverged. As we moved forwards, we increasingly abandoned non-commercial activities regardless of their contribution to social wellbeing.

We've now reached point where the benefits of technological advances are becoming outweighed by the disadvantages. New consumer inventions make us less active. Improved food production is turning us fat. Social media is stopping us socialising. Even medical advances will become less important to the majority focusing, quite rightly, on a shrinking minority of ill people or providing more years of relative infirmity for the very old.

The wellbeing of the majority during the majority of their lives can now be improved more by positive social interaction than by technological advances. To do this, we need to amend our reward system. We need to provide additional motivation for carrying out beneficial social activity. Although many already help others altruistically, there's no moral reason why they shouldn't receive further tangible rewards. And tangible rewards might encourage even more people to help one another. This would deliver additional social benefits thereby improving general wellbeing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alex Burrett
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310202650
• Artikelnr.: 48598565

Autorenporträt

Alex Burrett grew up in South Wales near Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey.

He's been writing creative material since single figures. (Saying that, don't most of us write creative material when we're in single figures?) Work and leisure have taken him around a fair bit of Britain and Western Europe, over to the US a handful of times with a couple of trips to the Eastern Mediterranean thrown in for good measure. In that time he's scaled and fallen off cliff faces, played and got scared in fresh and salt water, loved, hated, got confused, inebriated, depressed and had moments of extraordinarily blinding clarity. His proudest boast is to be married to a magnificent woman and have four fantastic children.

'The Titans' is his first novel. Written in 1991, Alex published it as an ebook in 2013.

'My Goat Ate Its Own Legs' is a collection of short stories. It was published in the UK in 2008, US in 2009 and [hopefully] will appear in translation in France in 2014.

'Fedw' is a collection of poems scrawled in blood and tears in a tatty notebook over 25 years. It is now available as an ebook.

'A damaged boy' is his second collection of short fiction. It contains two novellas: 'Liftless' and 'The Great Unloved'.

'Outstared by a Bullfrog' is Alex Burrett's second novel. It's trippy. And edgy.

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