• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    But we aren’t chimps, and you shouldn’t judge the effectiveness of economic structures on what chimps do.

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      8 months ago

      Nor should you pretend that we’re not apes, and that ape behaviour has no relevance to humans.

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        8 months ago

        It has about as much relevance as the behavior of any other mammal, circling back to my comment about rats.

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        8 months ago

        We could study what various apes do, and try to use that to guess at possible human behaviour - or we could literally just look at human behaviour directly. Surely the direct observations of what humans do is going to give us a more accurate and useful model of human behaviour compared to observations of other species.

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          8 months ago

          or we could literally just look at human behaviour directly.

          And when we do, we’ll discover that in many ways it’s similar to how other apes behave.

          Surely knowing that the behaviour is so ingrained that it’s also how apes behave makes it clear that it’s not some easy thing to change.