Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors
by jaggederest on Monday September 04, 2017 @06:29PM
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Interestingly enough I don't think that's actually the warping factor any more. It used to be, certainly, but I think these days we've gone beyond "I would like to own people as chattel property", and all the way to "I want to be the biggest metaphorical genitalia in my particular subregion of the country"
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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors
by kakarot on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @12:58AM
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I see your point, though it does seem like these are both extensions of the same underlying instinctual desires present in males, mainly the need for dominance (expressed in only a small percentage of the population for evolutionary reasons) and the need for sexual gratification / production of offspring. Being the biggest metaphorical genitalia around will lead to fulfillment of both of those things.