• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    Rats live like 2 years.

    In two years, they learn how to be better to each other than a large part of the human race.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 hours ago

      I think of it in another way: What these rats display is the natural behavior.

      These rats live two years, so they don’t have time to learn otherwise. Human greed is a learned behavior, and it takes a lot of time to learn that.

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          Greed is a pattern which is adopted to our current competitive environment, where everything is directed at progress and hard work. Really, humans often work 40 hours a week or more, which is significantly more time than wild animals spend to gather food. (I don’t have a source for this unfortunately, but if i remember correctly it’s maybe 2-3 hours a day.)