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by amanaplanacanal 18 days ago
I think there can be a middle ground here. Yes the appeal to nature fallacy is a thing. However, it's not obviously wrong to say that humans evolved in a specific environment, and to question whether moving them to a completely different environment is going to make their life worse.

We evolved living in smaller cooperative groups, and spending most of our time in nature. The farther we move away from that the more we might want to question whether any individual change is actually going to make our life better. Likely some tradeoffs are absolutely worth it and some probably not.

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Not counting that we already have been studying our own behaviour for thousands of years, as social individuals and society... sometimes you just cannot go back, throw a bat on everyone's head and convince everyone that since we work better in groups of 7, there shall be no corporation
Working 90 hours a week in a 15 person startup is arguably further from what we were supposed to do than cruising at Google