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> 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 evolutionar
by 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