Chapter 1: Why do we have to work? (part 5 of 6)

[SuperiorSavior]

The teenage hunter-gatherer would probably have beat up some other, weaker hunter-gatherer, and made him do the work for him. There's so much inequaliuty in our world, injustice we can't fight against, so why can't we be parasites, if we can get away with it? A lot of products don't help our survival needs at all (such as advertising or banking) they just circulate money around among the wealthy. It's not in a lot of people's economic interests to do what helps increase group survival interests

[ToddAllenGates]

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> The teenage hunter-gatherer would probably have beat up some other, weaker hunter-gatherer, and made him do the work for him. There's so much inequality in our world, injustice we can't fight against,

Yes, that's human nature! As I discuss in my "Roots of Morality" video (on my ToddAllenGates channel), it seems natural selection has left us with a complex mix of traits: care & compassion, but also greed & cruelty.

[ToddAllenGates]

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> so why can't we be parasites, if we can get away with it?

For those who are very successful and accumulate enough money to live off the interest, I don't think they're necessarily being parasites. And if they can pass on their wealth to their children, I guess one *could* argue that the kids are parasites, but should the gov't step in and take that money away? That kind of "cure" might be worse than the disease.

[ToddAllenGates]

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> A lot of products don't help our survival needs at all (such as advertising or banking)

Neither do iPods, but I'm glad we have them! And I'm happy to trade my hours of labor for one---it's very efficient really . . . because whether you have to trade a day's worth or a week's worth of labor for your iPod, they're still things that most people could *never* make on their own, even if they took a year.

[RyunSharp]

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[stevebritgimp]

Yes, so little explanation of the realities of the world - not to be harsh, but to be helpful. It seems you are kept in a bubble of ignorance through childhood and through schooling. I remember thinking that at the end of school you drifted into work and that was it. I remember thinking the learning process stopped at that point, where really it only properly begins at that point. I really wish my education had been more practical and helpful.