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Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong by mturmon on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:03PM (#37805535)
I’m personally curious if our cultural obsession with JS devs is pro-adaptive or mal-adaptive. The logical way to test this would be to send a bunch of JS devs to a Bangladeshi village and see if they survive.

In other words, you can’t really test a lot of social constructs in isolation.

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Re:Half a Million Kinksters Can't Be Wrong by rayiner on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:14PM (#37805631)
JS dev is a specialized trade that fills a social function within a larger society that needs many different kinds of jobs. Does polyamory serve such a specialized social function? Does society need any poly people at all? Like, if the world is ending and we need to send a 500 people to Mars to preserve humanity. What fraction of poly people do we need to bring to ensure the success of the mission?
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