Ignore the click-baity title here, this clip I’ve started the video at tells us a ton about why kindness is so, so valuable for us. The giver, the receiver: society.
In an earlier part of the conversation, too, in which the idea of ‘status’ was addresssed, there was this whole idea that ‘power’ and ‘possession’ is what the modern idea of status is, whereas before, it was how well you were regarded by others, and how you treated other people.
What happened to us? We got too focused on ‘having’ and ‘having stuff,’ I guess. We forgot people will not remember you, they’ll remember how you made them feel.