this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
139 points (97.9% liked)

Degrowth

1175 readers
26 users here now

Discussions about degrowth and all sorts of related topics. This includes UBI, economic democracy, the economics of green technologies, enviromental legislation and many more intressting economic topics.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io -1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The "selfish human nature" meme was basically invented as a post-hoc justification for the dysfunctional social systems

No, it's a biological reality rooted all the way in theory of evolution. It's an inherent part of nature of any living being

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Taking survival of the fittest and using it as evidence of vaguely analogous principles for how human society works has a long history of being wrong. That the way we behave is biased towards survival and reproduction in our native habitat does not imply that the concept of self interest must be at the foundation of how our minds function.

[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You're trying to throw away milions of years of evolution that shaped us, because why exactly? Evolution is a well established scientific theory, what's your counterargument?

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)