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ALTRUISM, SAY'S LAW and UNEMPLOYMENT

Altruism is innate to the human brain, but we have not managed enough to exploit it socially to eliminate unemployment. Government could coordinate "altruistic win-win operations" for the benefit of companies and worker unions. Neoclassical Economics is based on three "false truths". Their models suppose egoistic human beings, with unlimited will and unlimited rationality. None of these three parameters are real, being quite far from the man of flesh and blood. In this way, neoclassical theory, forged at the beginning of the 20th century but still studied in universities, was designed with the assumption that economic behavior that seeks self-interest dominates the motives of altruism and benevolence, surpassing JS Mill's initial idea, who thought that the economist should elaborate his theories "as if the man were egoistic, although he was not completely", but not "knowing that the man is selfish", as it ended up imposing. Altr...