@nbcnews: Author and academic Arthur Brooks tells Savannah Guthrie that society has gotten "more politically polarized" and "more alone," but that humans "are made to be altruistic." This conversation is part of Common Ground, an NBC News special sponsored by Comcast.

sami_carey :

Yes, people are call to generous, not to paid the government to be generous for us…there is a difference.

DaniB :

He looks like Jared Leto 😁

Jar Jar R. Martin :

He’s exactly half wrong. I’ve gone around the sun like forty something times, and it sure seems to me that half of us are like he says, altruistic to strangers n such. T’other half are only lookin out for their own. It’s probably for the best that we have a balance, but what do I know?

ykricky442 🇯🇲🇬🇧✌️ :

Starling :

Bewbin :

ur so right this is the most in history we have hated each other also just happens to be the first time we all talk to each other and we all sit down and we all eat together and marry together but yea this is worse than WW1