• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    I really don’t care if people want to compete with each other … but when your activities start affecting the lives of millions of people, causing them death, early death, unstable lives, hunger, pain, misery, then it becomes a problem on insanity causing untold misery … you can have your competition with others as long as it doesn’t involve anyone else

    • OpenStars@piefed.social
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      8 hours ago

      Humans are still monkeys, specifically a member of the great apes family. Studies of our closest relatives the Chimpanzee have been quite… illuminating.

      Like the one where given a cucumber they enjoy it, whereas when given a cucumber and then they see a chimp in a nearby cage be given a grape (relatively higher value gift, I guess sweeter), they throw the cucumber away in disgust.

      Wealth != Wisdom.