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I don't think evolution has a whole lot to do with this. Evolution takes place on a much longer time frame, so we're mostly talking about cultural norms here. Furthermore, whatever "trait" leads to accumulating sports cars and mcmansions is not heritable. There's something called the Matching Hypothesis in sociology that basically says people end up pairing with those on the same "level" (in whichever way that person…
And how can we communicate the desire for more education, more sustainability, less consumerism in order to better the world without reeking of progressive utopianism in our message? Sincerely doing this may very well benefit society and allow us to focus on the really amazing progressions in society and technology (like space colonization), but it's going to upset a whole lot of people who have invested time, money…
Re: What should I do with my life?
#61someone needs to study how to hack memetics