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by 2cynykyl 516 days ago
Im reading Sapiens at the moment and one statement really got my attention: human society is a marvel, but individually we are embarrassingly similar to Chimps. This mental model really helps put put so much behavior into context, like resource hogging and the hoarding instinct, despite obvious surplus of everything everywhere at all times.
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Not Society and its Discontents (1930), it's been going on as long as we have written records of anything spanning the history of civilization.