alt Hacker NewsThroughout the vast arc of human existence, you worked or you died. Nature does not hand you food, shelter, clothing, and flush toilets for free. Most of us, if dropped naked into the wilderness, will die within 24 hours.
Bone evidence from colonial America is the colonists worked like dogs and died young. Bone evidence from the Indians showed repeated famines.
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danielmarkbruce • today at 1:57 AM
You've misunderstood what the person is saying.
shimman • today at 2:02 AM
Nature also doesn't hand out corporate welfare or export subsidies but some how that's perfectly natural.
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venturecruelty • today at 3:13 AM
Please tell me who is going to die if I don't push my employer-mandated vibeslop up to GitHub. I'm genuinely curious.
Generally speaking, the clan you worked to survive with generally didn't cancel you because a seashell currency accountant saw some tangential benefit for a moment. Which might just be their own survival need to look busy or be a perforative hard ass, to avoid the same thing.
The loyalty you are dismissing as unnatural, was painstakingly discovered by our genes, precisely because it maximized survival in our natural environment.