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buybuydandavis comments on The decline of violence as a lens for understanding effective altruism - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 09 January 2015 01:08:58AM 1 point [-]

I was just noting the similarity in theory. I don't believe it myself.

In the particular case noted on the Cold War, Ozy is simply wrong, IMO. It was hugely ideological.

I don't think the general case is true either. People fight for a great many things besides "having enough". The resource they can't get enough of is power over their neighbor. There's no way to produce your way out of that.