In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Ocean Food Chains

Re:In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Oce... by bshepard on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:16AM (#17344212)

It's because "richness" creates a pathologically competitive social system that encourages this sort of destruction activity in order to get the token that conveys value.

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Re:In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Oce... by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:10AM (#17344391)

I’m going to argue pathologically competitive people are the causative factor rather than richness itself.

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Re:In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Oce... by nickthemagicman on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @08:17AM (#17345860)

I'm going to argue that lack of resources(caused by inequality) makes people pathologically competitive.

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Re:In the Philippines, Dynamite Fishing Decimates Entire Oce... by lopmotr on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:37PM (#17349654)

You mean rich people are to blame for poor people destroying their environment because the rich people set an example for poor people to aspire to? Have you got a suggestion for a way to solve that problem other than what the Khmer Rouge did?

I have. Forbid poor people from becoming rich. By keeping them in fixed economic classes, they won't have the motivation to compete so hard and then the fish will be saved. There are obvious bad side effects of this. Can you improve on it?

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