Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life

Re:Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will l... by merpnderp on Thursday June 17, 2021 @12:33AM (#27536161)

"Co-evolution, overlapping resource extraction, and of course the tension between the health of a group and the health of the individuals within it are just three basic ways that complicate your strong-takes/weak-taken description."

Why would that possibly complicate anything? You think a cheetah making the gazelle faster over time is some sort of gotcha that changes the fact that cheetahs eat gazelles?

I can throw out some terms and claim they'll contradict you too. Dominance hierarchy, infanticide, territoriality, and reproductive fitness are just 4 basic ways that uncomplicate my strong-takes/weak-taken description.

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Re:Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will l... by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday June 17, 2021 @01:41PM (#27542266)

I wasn't making a broad claim about the natural world, you were. To contradict your broad claim, I merely pointed out a couple of counter-examples that suggest something other than the heirarchy-based view you described.

If you want to contradict me, given that I'm acknowledging the presence of strong-takes-weak, but noting that it's not the whole picture, you'd need to show that actually, it is the whole picture.

You can't do that (because it's not true).

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