Post by cynical1 on Feb 19, 2023 11:01:31 GMT -5
But remuneration helps one survive, too. If I am the one who first gets a wolf to curl up by the fire and help me hunt the next day (granted, this oversimplifies a process that probably took thousands of years), then I can expect remuneration 'cause I'm bringing home the meat more consistently with my dog- the others in my family/tribal group will give me a larger portion. (And, there is no such thing as a human without a social group- we were social way before we were human).
remuneration \rih-myoo-nuh-RAY-shun\ noun. :
the act or fact of paying an equivalent to for a service, loss, or expense : recompense, pay.You're moving to the Enterprise phase of this. You point your finger to the path we find ourselves on now. Once your basic needs are met...all that's left is wants. Wants require profit...which precipitates over production and over consumption....bubbles and crashes...rinse, lather, repeat...
I was referring to the survival phase...before Locke showed up...the one we seem to have divorced ourselves from. Somewhere in the Foundation Trilogy, Asimov forwards the argument that all great change in civilization\society is politically* based. Technology is not the primary driver in social change. Anyone who's read these in this century, please feel free to help me out here.
Assuming the premise that capitalism only works until the envelope has been reached, and we find ourselves in a largely capitalist world economy, how will the desire for profits hinder or eclipse legislative\ethical boundaries being imposed on the development and\or deployment of this new technology?
So we gotta distinguish the method from the motive.
Are dogs today made "naturally" or "artificially"?
in my lands whenever some chaos took place, the dogs climbed the nearby mountains and interbred with wolves to the point that in some years there was only a single species in the mountain, something between the original dogs and wolves. So the natural "program" was for one species.
Yeah, that whole natural selection thing. In your case it might be seen as just another hybrid, but this is not all that uncommon in nature. Polar bears appear to be breeding with grizzly bears and wolves and coyotes have been known to breed within a stressed environment.
The natural program is survival.
The racial creation, classification and eventual isolation was a human incentive.
Hard to imagine that humans back then were so so advanced in genetic improvement and modification (or not.. )
- we humans tend to forget history, or to despise history, or erase history or promote a completely false idea of history that is even worse than erasure... how can we move forward without our log files? Can any patient find adequate help from a doctor if the patient loses his medical records? Or any database system survive a crash without its write-ahead logs? no way... how can humans create a new history if they completely fight their present with such menace and fury ? Who would think that "humans" have any sincere intention to help their own kind?
HTC1
* : Politics (from Greek: Πολιτικά, politiká, 'affairs of the cities')
is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.