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I had the same thought but it goes beyond the internet: A surprisingly large amount of all human economic activity is around exploiting other people's psyche/bi

I had the same thought but it goes beyond the internet: A surprisingly large amount of all human economic activity is around exploiting other people's psyche/biology. And then we wonder why everything is so broken. Well we allow people to make money off of addicting people, whether it's to games, sugar or social media or suggestive pictures, alcohol, gambling.. there are some base triggers in our biological code that are legal to press.

zvmaz 3y ago
> A surprisingly large amount of all human economic activity is around exploiting other people's psyche/biology. There's a book I am reading about evolutionary psychology that posits that a lot of human behavior has unconscious prior motives that serve our biological interests [1]. According to the author, even the high morals of Charles Darwin can be interpreted as "Darwinian" self-interest that served him well in Victorian England. I am not comfortable with his reasoning, the more so given that a lot of it is speculation. [1] Richard Wright, The Moral Animal
mvncleaninst 3y ago
> A surprisingly large amount of all human economic activity is around exploiting other people's psyche/biology. With this, you can acknowledge that it's going on in the general case, but the second you start naming specifics is when the flame warring starts For example: the pharmaceutical industry