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by lm28469 1335 days ago
Same reason why obese people keep eating junk food and smokers have a hard time stopping, we're still monkeys, if you know which buttons you have to press you can make us do really unproductive/negative things

We're still competing for food, attention, mates, &c. it's just that technology made it so convoluted and "unnatural" that we somehow don't even make the link anymore