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[–] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah, that's generally how humans operate. Pretty universally.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago (1 child)

    That's how they're conditioned/forced to think under capitalism. Everything orbits around the accumulation and/or preservation of an abstract, arbitrary number rather than things that actually matter.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 hours ago

    No, that's just human nature. Humans operate within circles of closeness. Themselves, their immediate family, their extended family, their neighborhood, their town, their state, their country, other humans globally, then other issues like the abstract issue of a future climate situation.

    Generally, people only start to care about the further circles when the closer circles are fully satisfied, regardless of economic system. If something happens to affect a closer circle, then humans will virtually always focus on that circle before caring about a further circle.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago

    Misanthropic nonsense. People opposed their government waging the Iraq war, assisting the Palestinian genocide, the Vietnam war amongst whole hosts of other things with no appeal to their own wallet.

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