Comment on I don't know what part of this headline depresses me the most: "52-year-old worked 90-hour weeks in an oil refinery to save money for his business—now he's worth $9.5 billion"

• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would blame that on outliers and survivorship bias. We don’t exactly care about the 100,000’s of years of relatively peaceful human history. There’s a reason “may you live in interesting times,” is a curse. We live in interesting times.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Peaceful relative to what? Historically, war and conflict has been the norm.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not really. If it were, we wouldn’t have survived as a species. It’s what we focus on, but it actually makes up a very small segment of the overall human experience.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I disagree. Conflict is what has driven our development as a species. The first tools weren’t for building, they were weapons. Even today, so much new scientific development happens as a result of war, especially in medicine.

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