• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    100%. Humans are social animals primarily because we’ve been conditioned into behavior where helping someone means you are more likely to be helped in turn later on.

    If other members of a social unit are dependent on you, that is a transactional relationship, but providing a service for the social unit helps improve everyone’s overall quality of life, even if that service is transactional.