billionaires should be desperate to be taxed. something is going to happen to them, and 'taxed' is the best verb they can hope for at this point
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

we evolved as prey animals

Humans are predators, not prey. A quick heuristic for this is forward-facing eyes.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    A quicker one is to understand biology and where we’re placed ecologically in the food chain.

    Eye placement isn’t a bellwether for being a predator. Our forward facing eyes give us pretty good binocular vision which is a pretty good thing for primates to have evolved. Dense foliage is something we’re good at seeing through. We don’t know EXACTLY why we evolved forward facing eyes but this is one of the best theorized guesses.

    We have carnivorous traits but are not strictly a predator. We’re somewhere around pigs on the food chain.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    What do you consider carnivorous traits? Binocular vision is for depth perception, something the world's best arm cannon would specialize in. Meanwhile, Orca don't have binocular vision but are absolutely an apex predator.

    Also, humans don't conform to natural classifications and food chains so arguing what is prey or predator is pointless. Humans are now one of the mass extinction events on this planet and it doesn't look like that's going to slow.

    We do fight ourselves for resources, but honestly so does basically other animal on earth. Even the previously mentioned orca have had fads of wearing salmon hats for social clout. What makes us special is we understand how we are fucking ourselves over and do it anyway.

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