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Humans optimize for their own self interest, this is basic economic theory. It’s not despicable it’s human nature.
by edgyquant 3y ago
Humans optimize for their own self interest, this is basic economic theory. It’s not despicable it’s human nature.
- wiz21c 3y agoplease don't mix up human nature and economic theory. That's not the same.
- zenapollo 3y agoIt’s not as different as you might think. There has been a movement of anthropologists to call homo sapien alternatively homo economicus. Our ability to accumulate and share resources, which allowed us to build and trade, has deep roots in evolutionary psychology and sociology, and as these anthropologists argue, is perhaps the thing that most poignantly makes us uniquely human.
- edgyquant 3y agoIn this case they are