#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

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People are people and they have stuff they don't need and they want to sell it and other people have stuff they want and they're willing to buy it. And those incentives at scale overpower any kind of emotional, psychological, historical hatreds and all those kinds of things. It's funny, the little incentives and the mechanisms of capitalism, at its best, can heal the wounds of war.