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Re: Are humans naturally acquisitive and always selfish? [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #28607994 - 01/03/24 05:07 AM (25 days, 8 hours ago)

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DividedQuantum said:
Modern economic theory depends on the axiom that man is naturally acquisitive and always acts for selfish reasons, ultimately. Most modern humans subscribe to this assumption.

There is in fact no genetic imperative making humans naturally selfish and acquisitive. Indeed, for hundreds of thousands of years we were a cooperative, non-materialistic species. If, for the sake of perspective, planetary evolution took a thousand years, human society as currently constituted would have lasted for less than a day. So, this "natural" acquisitiveness and material hoarding is the exception, not the rule.

We are not programmed by our DNA to be like this. We are programmed by our culture to be like this.

So, in contradistinction to economic and biological ideas, anthropology would tend to indicate that for most of our history we were not inherently acquisitive and always selfish.

Would anyone like to offer a solution to this discrepancy?



The problem is that, that's your opinion (bold out text), hinders any conclusions you might reach to be right/correct.
One can not turn a theory into a fact, and then use that fact (actually an opinion), as a foundation for the findings of facts.

That said, I believe we have always been acquisitive and selfish.

There are children right now who have little to nothing, the kind of child that would be happy playing with a worn out bike tyre, yet if they went from that situation to being given the vast options like most first world kids are presented with, I believe said child would soon show signs of acquisitive and selfishness given the right circumstance.

And

Most people (around 90-99% of all people) that say they love someone (regardless of who it is), say "I love You" and demonstrate their love for someone else, do it from a selfish position.  That is, if person A says that they love person B, but then person A received absolutely nothing back from person B, you would find that person's A "love" would soon end.


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