whymememe

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by whymememe 5mo ago
I agree but I’d like to add that people are definitely falling for PR, people are always falling for PR or no one would bother with PR
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by whymememe 6mo ago
Yeah pretty much, it’s a pretty tough to pinpoint what work actually is without paid labour.
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by whymememe 6mo ago
I mostly agree, but the whole worked only 15 hours a week stat is almost certainly not correct. It came from a paper that only counted time outside of camp as work, so time spent in camp processing food wasn't counted. The actual numbe
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by whymememe 9mo ago
"Without any external pressure, multiple peoples concluded that settling and eating grass was preferable to being nomads." Portraying it as an individual choice is inaccurate. The process of populations becoming sedentary(and agra
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by whymememe 1y ago
I have had an incredibly similar experience, including falling back into being convinced I was in a 'loop' when my mind was tired or on psychedelics. I've always found it interesting how common this type of bad trip is and wo
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by whymememe 1y ago
??? I haven’t seen the narrative that Ukraine is winning the war for at least 2 years. You should maybe choose better news sources, there’s a huge amount of very accurate reporting on it. Additionally, the Russian economy is a wartime econo
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by whymememe 1y ago
To be pedantic, it’s definitionally not reading. You listened to the book, you didn’t read it. There’s just an odd legitimacy associated specifically with reading - that people want to access, and so makes other people weirdly snobbish&#x2F
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by whymememe 2y ago
That’s quite a controversial figure actually. The original paper that popularised this was the ‘Original affluent society’ paper by Marshall Sahlins. It marked a big shift away from the paradigm at the time, that saw hunter gatherers as hav
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by whymememe 2y ago
Adam Smith is often used as symbol of laissez-faire capitalism but was explicitly a proponent for regulation in situations where the market failed, such as this one imagine. What you probably mean is that people take the concept of the invi
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by whymememe 2y ago
I understand your point but all the resources and material goods in the world don’t matter if you can’t access them. > Indeed, we don’t have the technology to save people from themselves, yet. The plight of the poorest in today’s societi
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by whymememe 2y ago
The poorest? So the homeless opiate addict living under a city bypass is better off than King Henry VIII? Someone should tell them.