[HN Gopher] Everything Is Dominance Hierarchies
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       Everything Is Dominance Hierarchies
        
       Author : paulpauper
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2024-04-19 21:35 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | 48864w6ui wrote:
       | Did Kaczynski have an argument against comparative advantage?
        
       | jdbernard wrote:
       | Lol, this is laughably far from my lived experience, and I
       | imagine that of many others.
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       |  _Child has ego - wants to be important - demonstrates a certain
       | talent - identifies a dominance hierarchy predicated on that
       | talent - consumes the mythology of the intrinsic importance of
       | that dominance hierarchy, storied by generations of those who
       | climbed it - spend your life climbing to the top of that
       | dominance hierarchy._
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       | For me it is: child has fun, wants to continue to have fun -
       | realizes he has the most fun making things with people he loves -
       | realizes society won't let him do what he wants to do unless he
       | checks arbitrary boxes - spends time having fun making things
       | instead of checking boxes - spend life trying to find a
       | comfortable place to have fun making things and enjoy my family.
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       | You can deny my internal motivations and assume I'm self-deluded
       | all you want, but I know myself very well. I'm interested in
       | having done things I find meaningful, not being someone of
       | importance, and the actions of my life back up that assertion.
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       | This article is an overly simplistic view of the world and human
       | motivations. You get to choose if this is how you live your life,
       | and you really can choose purpose and value beyond ego. Ego and
       | greed may be the norm for modern culture, and may be the typical
       | way that the corporate world operates, but it is certainly not
       | the _only_ way. It 's almost narcissistic how much it assumes
       | that everyone else's motivations are exactly like the author's.
        
       | bdjsiqoocwk wrote:
       | Projection. This argument says more about the author than about
       | the world.
        
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