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> I prefer a society where everyone have min well being and better off people have some luxuries ^ people will still fight tooth and nail for the luxuries even
by darepublic 5y ago
> I prefer a society where everyone have min well being and better off people have some luxuries
^ people will still fight tooth and nail for the luxuries even if the basic floor of existence keeps rising. It's like that proverb of the dogs, it's not enough that we succeed, cats must fail. I assume it had to do with the competition of passing on your genes.
- theonlybutlet 5y agoNot really, that's cultural. In the recent past, status was also associated with professions that made a positive contribution toward society such as doctors. Nowadays you're a respected leader if you own a big ass yacht even if it's luck. The longer term trend was this material wealth but I blame that on inequality, which is rising now.
- reeeee1234 5y ago>not really, that's cultural. Some things are cultural, however competition for mates and sexual selection is not one of them. I see this attitude as a lateral movement of the anti Darwinists from Protestantism to woke. People compete with each other in order to be more desirable to more desirable mates and to win their affection. This is foundational to evolution itself. Saying ”not really" to established science which undergirds all medicine and biology is an expression of fundamentalist extremism no one should let pass. Also, society confers far more esteem to cancer researchers than Hollywood moguls exactly because they make a positive contribution. Sorry. It's wrong to let that kind of ignorance pass unrebutted.