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Throughout the vast arc of human existence, you worked or you died. Nature does not hand you food, shelter, clothing, and flush toilets for free. Most of us, if
by WalterBright 10mo ago
Throughout the vast arc of human existence, you worked or you died. Nature does not hand you food, shelter, clothing, and flush toilets for free. Most of us, if dropped naked into the wilderness, will die within 24 hours.
Bone evidence from colonial America is the colonists worked like dogs and died young. Bone evidence from the Indians showed repeated famines.
- danielmarkbruce 10mo agoYou've misunderstood what the person is saying.
- shimman 10mo agoNature also doesn't hand out corporate welfare or export subsidies but some how that's perfectly natural.
- WalterBright 10mo agoI thought we were talking about capitalism, not the things government does.
- Nevermark 10mo agoGenerally speaking, the clan you worked to survive with generally didn't cancel you because a seashell currency accountant saw some tangential benefit for a moment. Which might just be their own survival need to look busy or be a perforative hard ass, to avoid the same thing. The loyalty you are dismissing as unnatural, was painstakingly discovered by our genes, precisely because it maximized survival in our natural environment.
- WalterBright 10mo agoIf you didn't find your work in the clan to be emotionally fulfilling, and stopped working, the clan would not be likely to share the food with you.
- Nevermark 10mo agoYes, that would be an expected and natural outcome.
- venturecruelty 10mo agoPlease tell me who is going to die if I don't push my employer-mandated vibeslop up to GitHub. I'm genuinely curious.
- hackable_sand 10mo agoYeah it's really not that serious
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