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the only currency that appreciates when you have nothing left to spend.
means Faithful allegiance and steadfast devotion to a person, cause, or group, especially when tested.
from From Old French 'loial,' meaning lawful or faithful, which traces back to Latin 'legalis' — 'of the law,' from 'lex,' law. So loyalty and 'legal' are siblings split at birth: both born from law, one staying with the courts, the other wandering off to live in the heart. What began as keeping to the rules became keeping to your people.
- dog math
- Dogs can smell loyalty's chemical opposite: fear and betrayal
- roman roots
- Latin legalis meant binding to law, not feeling
- brain proof
- Oxytocin spikes both bonding and ruthless in-group bias
- costly signal
- Loyalty only counts when defection would pay better
greyfriars bobby — skye terrier who sat on his owner's grave in edinburgh for 14 years after 1858
hachiko — akita who waited at tokyo station for 9 years after his owner's death in 1925
balto — sled dog who led the 1925 serum run to nome, alaska, saving diphtheria patients