Intelligence is highly correlated with altruism. This study proposes that it has to do with the fact that intelligent people can afford to lose some resources:
The cost incurred by engaging in unconditional altruism is lower for highly intelligent people than for less intelligent people because they may expect to regain the drained resources. As a result, unconditional altruism can serve as an honest signal of intelligence.
So maybe altruism is just a way of showing off how many resources you can donate without taking a hit and thus having/being able to generate lots of resources makes people more altruistically motivated.
Yeah fair enough, I just wanted to show a case where even a very abstract and hard to measure advantage in resource gathering is shown to be correlated with giving resources away.
Intelligence is highly correlated with altruism. This study proposes that it has to do with the fact that intelligent people can afford to lose some resources:
So maybe altruism is just a way of showing off how many resources you can donate without taking a hit and thus having/being able to generate lots of resources makes people more altruistically motivated.
Usually more apparent when it’s a sudden increase in resource generation power (e.g. winning the lottery.)
Yeah fair enough, I just wanted to show a case where even a very abstract and hard to measure advantage in resource gathering is shown to be correlated with giving resources away.