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What exactly do you believe the link is between someone's profession and their genes? Because your comment reads like you believe there are genes for things you
by merpnderp 6y ago
What exactly do you believe the link is between someone's profession and their genes? Because your comment reads like you believe there are genes for things you consider moral and immoral.
- moritzwarhier 6y agoI was aiming at the fact that money is today a prime signifier of "evolutionary fitness", if that makes any sense. In my tangent about natural resources and fossil fuel I wanted to suggest that making money (especially big money) is strongly correlated with consumption of natural resources. (see tragedy of the commons) Mostly indirectly, even in professions that to not directly "burn fuel". Sell more goods, buy more property, consume energy. Which of course is also a necessary part of modern life. The problem is scale. We are not getting more efficient in depleting natural resources (as in using less for more), we are maximizing monetary gain. That being said, I have no problem if you discard my answer as incoherent rambling. On the other hand, I don't understand why I was implying "immoral genes" or anything like that.
- sneak 6y agoI think power (specifically geopolitical) is significantly more of an indicator than money. There are people substantially less wealthy than, say, Zuckerberg, who are far more likely to survive in a civilizational collapse/population bottleneck type evolutionary scenario. In that sort of circumstance I'd rather be a Dr Strangelove (or high ranking military official, or an Air Force 1 crew member) than a Warren Buffet.