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[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And the reason they hate those things. Is that because in a short-term it impacts their real profits.

Greed is always a short-term outlook. No immoral greedy person ever looked at something and said, boy if I just made society better we as a whole would benefit a whole lot more. It's always, give it to me. Give it to me naooooooow!

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah. If they weren't so evolutionarily maladaptive, they could easily have provided for their offspring for the foreseeable future of the species in a way that would be be resilient to societal and environmental changes. It really is past time that this mental illness is studied and characterized.