I think the boundary between "human nature" and "customs of the time and place" is so fuzzy that it is undisentanglable. Is laziness a psychological need or is it just the N-player prisoner's dilemma? Is power lust the inner killer monkey or the Dark Forest?
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Replying to @JohnBarnesSF
> so fuzzy that it is undisentanglable.
will ponder this
> Is laziness a psychological need
I'd argue that it's the result of evolution in a resource-constrained universe. Lazy entities survive and maybe reproduce ; Un-lazy entities fritter away calories and starve.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @MorlockP
Or the un-lazy entities capture the calories from the lazy, and let them do the starving. "The rain falls both upon the just And likewise on the unjust fella But more upon the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella."
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Replying to @JohnBarnesSF
> Or the un-lazy entities capture the calories from the lazy, and let them do the starving. well, right, this is close to my argument about why slavery exists
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Replying to @MorlockP
It's also close to what Marx and Engels and Kautsky were talking about with "surplus value" and "alienated labor." (Though many Marxists fail to see a point Marx made early: the greater the distance through which labor is alienated, the larger the surplus becomes)
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Replying to @MorlockP @JohnBarnesSF
anyway, good conversation, would love to explore it in more depth some time, but must work now I reiterate something I said ~5 years ago: if we ever bump into each other f2f, drinks are one me.
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Replying to @MorlockP
Is it my genes or my upbringing that make me say I'll gladly accept, and then reciprocate?
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