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Evolutionary psych professor; wrote some books. Into the deep past & far future, esp. genes, minds, civilizations, sex, freedom, families, & Effective Altruism.

New Mexico
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    Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly Oct 23

    One subtext of my 'Spent' book: happy, long-term, pronatalist pair-bonds undermine people's need for runaway consumerism & materialism. To prevent this, advertisers, news, & mass media must work overtime to make the sexes dislike & mistrust each other.pic.twitter.com/4QtaG5WfCG

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      1. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly Oct 23

        PS the painting is 'Signing the register' by Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Leighton …

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      2. Stephen Pimentel‏ @StephenPiment Oct 23
        Replying to @primalpoly

        Is your theory that this is conscious or just selected behavior?

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      3. Geoffrey Miller‏Verified account @primalpoly Oct 23
        Replying to @StephenPiment

        Good question, and I don't know the answer. Every advertiser knows the best way to sell stuff is to instill feelings of sexual frustration and inadequacy, and presumably they know that happily married people don't feel as frustrated or inadequate....

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      4. ThisUsedToBeMyRealName‏ @NotQuiteLaconic Oct 23
        Replying to @primalpoly @StephenPiment

        It’s both. Advertisers learned through trial and error that tapping into women’s hypergamy and unmoored materialism worked best for selling consumerism, to the point that now women account for 80% of all purchases and now the process is intentional.

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      5. Jody Walbaum‏ @JodyWalbaum Oct 23
        Replying to @NotQuiteLaconic @primalpoly @StephenPiment

        ....and I hate it. Grocery shopping is the worst would eat rather go back to growing my own food, canning and living simple.

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      6. ThisUsedToBeMyRealName‏ @NotQuiteLaconic Oct 23
        Replying to @JodyWalbaum @primalpoly @StephenPiment

        That’s probably a good idea regardless. Just big curiosity what’s your (rough) age bracket and marital/parental status? It’s not been my experience that women are leading the charge against consumerism.

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      7. Jody Walbaum‏ @JodyWalbaum Oct 23
        Replying to @NotQuiteLaconic @primalpoly @StephenPiment

        There are lots of us out here. 40’s 3 kids graduated,1 10 year old living with the love of my life. Rural living with chickens in my yard and my career is a tax consultant!

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      8. ThisUsedToBeMyRealName‏ @NotQuiteLaconic Oct 23
        Replying to @JodyWalbaum @primalpoly @StephenPiment

        Sounds nice. I asked not to attack just curiosity. I suppose there’s a pool of women that aren’t damaged from anti family/consumerist programming but as a mid 20s man it seems incredibly hard to find

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      9. Jody Walbaum‏ @JodyWalbaum Oct 23
        Replying to @NotQuiteLaconic @primalpoly @StephenPiment

        I honestly can’t believe what has happened in a short period of time. Hopefully your gen will be able to pull it back on the road.

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      2. Mom Folding Laundry‏ @JenandZen Oct 23
        Replying to @primalpoly

        Once you have a marriage, you have the start of a team. The start of an empire. You build things together and amass wealth and resources for your offspring. Breaking that up ensures that people remain wage slaves.

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      2. 1/512 Klingon Christopher Valence‏ @ChrisValence Oct 23
        Replying to @primalpoly

        There's a reason every commercial with a married couple has the husband as an utter buffoon. Well, there's several reasons, but this is one of them.

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      2. Citizen ₿itcoin ⚡‏ @CitizenBitcoin Oct 23
        Replying to @primalpoly @Ragnarly

        Bitcoin does this, too.

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      3. Roly Poly‏ @rolypolyistaken Oct 23
        Replying to @CitizenBitcoin @primalpoly @Ragnarly

        I probably agree with you, but: Explain?

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      4. Citizen ₿itcoin ⚡‏ @CitizenBitcoin Oct 23
        Replying to @rolypolyistaken @primalpoly @Ragnarly

        Inflationary fiat money incentivizes spending, and thus runaway consumerism, by punishing saving. Deflationary money incentivizes reasonable growth by rewarding saving, thus making the owner of stored value think more critically about parting with it.

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      2. Most Casual Observer‏ @corpecto Oct 23
        Replying to @primalpoly @Cernovich

        The most impactful 5 words in advertising: "lasting more than four hours"

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      1. Jacob‏ @cryptochamomile Oct 23
        Replying to @primalpoly @William_Blake

        Strange point for a polyamorist to make. My experience of polys is that they justify it in terms of sexual consumerism, and are very unlikely to have a long-term pronatalist pair bond

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