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There are few known ecosystems, without a small bunch of apex predators. If nature hasn't figured out how to do it any different, given the time she has had, n
by hux_ 9y ago
There are few known ecosystems, without a small bunch of apex predators.
If nature hasn't figured out how to do it any different, given the time she has had, neither are we.
If you are not powerful, make yourself useful to the powerful. And that doesn't mean working for a douchebag.
- Karrot_Kream 9y ago> If nature hasn't figured out how to do it any different, given the time she has had, neither are we. Not following the logic here at all. What does an economy have to do with an ecosystem? What is "nature"? Are there Apex predator bacteria? How does an Apex preditor map to an economic actor? This is as lazy naturalist fallacy as it gets.
- hux_ 9y agoNature doesn't have any great goal just like economies don't. They are just chaotic systems we pretend to understand to claim control. The temporary periods such systems achieve some temporary stablity is when heirarchies form. Talk to an ecologist, if you want more plankton in a fixed amount of ocean you have to kill whales. If you want more whales you have produce more plankton as in you need a bigger ocean. Same story with the economy whether you pick Genghis Khan or Mark Zuckerberg you can't produce them without millions of plebs.
- jondubois 9y agoExcept that compared to the laws of nature, ours are fickle.
- solidsnack9000 9y agoThere is a point in here. We have a competitive system where the winners are able to capture more resources and power relative to everyone else, and we allow some of these benefits to carry over from generation to generation. It is only natural that some families will acquire so much power and influence relative to most others that they sit in an uncontested position indefinitely. This has happened many-a-time in history. The Hapsburgs are a powerful family even today. The Japanese royal family is the same family it was 2500 years ago.
- zeth__ 9y agoWhen the body mass of an apex predator can grow exponentially you might have a point. Nature places limits on growth with physics. Society does the same with revolutions and genocides. I'd would rather we don't have a WWIII as a way to address inequality, as nice as WWII was for wealth redistribution I'd rather no deal with a nuclear war when we can just use laws to deal with a bit of greed.
- rdlecler1 9y agoYou’re committing the naturalistic fallacy that is implies ought.