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Even better question is, where the world would be if evolution wouldn't allow individual organisms to optimize their fitness by taking part in a race to the bot
by Radim 10y ago
Even better question is, where the world would be if evolution wouldn't allow individual organisms to optimize their fitness by taking part in a race to the bottom?
That constant pressure to do more with less... deadly.
With "beneficial" (sic) mutations like this one you're just ripping other organisms off.
- legulere 10y agoThe race to the bottom doesn't optimize fitness though. It relies on being globally unsustainable and just works by parasitically draining all business from the rest of the world. Ireland isn't somehow magically fitter than other countries and thus able to offer 0.005% corporate tax. It's only relying on attracting an above-normal amount of companies by having low taxes and draining other countries of their tax benefits in the same turn. It wouldn't work if everybody was doing it. In fact countries would just turn to shit.
- Radim 10y agoI fail to see where the analogy breaks, from your description. It seems to fit like a glove, with ruthless disregard for any kind of sustainability, draining parasitic/symbiotic relationships and all.