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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

Rats live like 2 years.

In two years, they learn how to be better to each other than a large part of the human race.

I think of it in another way: What these rats display is the natural behavior.

These rats live two years, so they don't have time to learn otherwise. Human greed is a learned behavior, and it takes a lot of time to learn that.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Sounds like greed needs to have some cognitive feedback.

Greed is a pattern which is adopted to our current competitive environment, where everything is directed at progress and hard work. Really, humans often work 40 hours a week or more, which is significantly more time than wild animals spend to gather food. (I don't have a source for this unfortunately, but if i remember correctly it's maybe 2-3 hours a day.)

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