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Outer Head Reged: 12/06/13 Posts: 9818 |
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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? -------------------- Vi Veri Universum Vivus Vici
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