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Re:Mozilla, EFF, Reddit And 83 Other Organizations Launch St... by detcader on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @01:35AM (#5866678)
The root cause? It's always money. Lawrence Lessig makes this clear, in a TED talk no less ( http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t... )
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Re:Mozilla, EFF, Reddit And 83 Other Organizations Launch St... by adrianbg on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @04:05AM (#5867049)
The root cause is power, of which money is a conveniently quantifiable manifestation. Power-seeking has occurred continually over time since human populations became dense enough to extrude persistent hierarchies.
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Re:Mozilla, EFF, Reddit And 83 Other Organizations Launch St... by arethuza on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @04:46AM (#5867146)
Dominance hierarchies are pretty common amongst animals - so we have probably inherited this bheaviour from our non-human ancestors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy

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Re:Mozilla, EFF, Reddit And 83 Other Organizations Launch St... by RyanMcGreal on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @12:42PM (#5869030)
Constitutional politics to evolutionary psychology in four comments: this is why I keep coming back to HN.
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