b1shop comments on Missed opportunities for doing well by doing good - Less Wrong

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Comment author: b1shop 12 September 2010 05:30:21PM 0 points [-]

People's focus on acquiring material resources is in fact irrational, borne of a now-maladaptive hoarding heuristic inherited from our ancestors.

If this were true, we'd expect to find out ancestors either as or more selfish than us.

In reality, we find our ancestors were more egalitarian with both wealth and status.

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