Re:Why are we still working this hard?
by teiferer on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:39PM
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> people want
I'm not dismissing what you are saying, but do you have evidence for what "people want"? In my experience, when somebody claims to know what people want then it tends to be a mix of "I want", "the people I know want", "I hope people want", "people should want", and a few others, rarely with any evidence.
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Re:Why are we still working this hard?
by jaklwef9awefioj on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:51PM
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Why People Prefer Unequal Societies (Starmans, Sheskin, & Bloom, 2017)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315944588_Why_peopl...
Re:Why are we still working this hard?
by bsenftner on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:34PM
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For the interested: people prefer a 'fair' society, which means if a person puts in more effort it is fair they receive more, which creates inequality by the simple fact some work harder than others, some work less, and it is only fair they each are compensated equal to their effort.
That's not what your data shows. It just shows that people don't want to be near the bottom of the pile, because it indicates they're being mistreated (which they are).
People don't want to "do better then their neighbors," they just don't want to be left behind by society.
Framing it the way you do makes it seem like everyone desires brutal social darwinism. It's not true. People just want to be treated fairly and live in a relatively egalitarian world.