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Maybe. I grew up in the Southwest.

Ellison and Zuckerberg have very different values than I have.

Getting out of the Southwest and coming to the Midwest (school) and staying for a while before spending 18 years in Canada was a joy.

I found the people to be less religious, less racist, surprisingly in to locally sourced food and nature conservation.

I'm certainly not poor, but most wealthy people I know are, well, not really someone I would want to spend a lot of time with or emulate.

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I am only using very wealthy people as a reference because I think they are a good proxy for hedonistic values, which I believe are rooted in human instinct and what worked in the ancestral environment.

You can’t delete these instincts, you can only bury them.

[apercu]

I'm not arguing, but again, nuance. I don't know that it is human instinct, my understanding is that diseases like malaria and the heat (no A/C) meant European colonizers avoided a lot of the warmer places and moved inland to the mountains where it was cooler.

It might, instead, be a cultural influence?

I feel like I am being pedantic, though. Apologies for that.