It's on the minds of everyone from you to your congressperson to your barista.

When they flip that little POS tablet towards you asking for the tip, I always feel like I'm in a moral crisis of whether or not I tip and how much I should tip because how much are they being paid.

Tipping.

The question on everyone's minds.

We'll bring you the answers this week on Explain It to Me.

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We view the individual as what is most concrete and most real.

That's wrong, because there is no such thing as an isolated individual.

Can I ask you, Mark, why is it so hard to see that?

I don't. No.

Why is the illusion that we are just disconnected and separate so powerful?

It's one of many things that post to me.

We're puzzling through that together this week on the gray area.

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Imagine for a moment that we have the ability to rewind time.

That we're able to press a button and slide back through the last centuries' worth of history,

through millennia of music and culture, back through tens and then hundreds of thousands of years of human existence.

Imagine that we keep going.

We go back through the age of the dinosaurs.

And the age of the giant insects.

All the way back to around 500 million years ago, when our ancestors, ancestors, ancestors

were crawling around in the muck along with other animals.

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