Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting in the Mediterranean

Re:Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting i... by qazpot on Saturday May 18, 2019 @10:53AM (#19947714)

> In our economic system, that's kind of how it works. It's a survival-of-the-fittest environment.

I doubt that the survival-of-the-fittest environment is a product of the economic system. It is the converse which is true. Our society which includes economic system is a product of survival-of-the-fittest because it is hardcoded in our DNA, in fact in the genetic material of every living thing.

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Re:Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting i... by skybrian on Saturday May 18, 2019 @01:45PM (#19948672)

Businesses have decision-makers who are not simply paperclip-maximizers. They read the news and have opinions about right and wrong. This means politics matters; it isn't all economic incentives, let alone genetics.

This doesn't mean it's easy to change people's minds, though.

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Re:Birds are being vacuumed up as part of olive harvesting i... by perfmode on Saturday May 18, 2019 @11:45AM (#19948039)

This is fallacious

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