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Hey I'm no big supporter of billionaires but "that behavior in any other species we would classify it as some kind of divergent behavior" is extremely wrong. Altruism is extremely rare outside humans. Most animals would absolutely love to get every single piece of food in the forest all to themselves. They steal food from each other constantly. Whole species are based on the very concept of stealing as their main or sole life strategy. There are fish out there whose main food is the juveniles of the exact same fish species. Literal baby-eating as their main strategy.
We humans are supposed to be better than animals. Comparing someone to an animal is comparing them to something bad.
If you saw a single bear successfully hoarding 98% of the food supply of an entire forest, you'd have to be a fucking moron to fail to classify them as a detrimental anomaly.
if the other 98% of the bears gave their food supply to the 1 bear with 98% of the supply because the bear with the food supply gave them cheap Labubu's you'd probably just say yeah that's their culture
And tbh this discussion seems to come back to the American bear species almost all of the time
Again, you would have to be a fucking moron to fail to classify them as the shitstain anomaly they would be.
Just because you are so stupid as to dismiss such a thing as 'culture' does not mean I would.
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Please calm down, take a chill pill and we can discuss this more later
There's no need to be so angry in a community chat forum
They don't do that because they physically can't. If they could they would. If you have two starving bears and throw them one carcass. Only one will eat because they will fight and scream away the weaker one.
Yet billionaires can. Interesting how you are willing to work so hard to completely miss the point. How stupid do you choose to be?
The original point is that billionaires, as I interpret it, is that billionaires are worse than animals. Or at least that if we look at billionaires as if they were animals we would still diagnose them as ill. My point is that that's not true. Animals can be just as psychotic. Most have absolutely no morals and a subset of them regularly do things that are way worse than what the billionaires are doing, hence my examples.
However animals are not humans. Billionaires are humans. If we say billionaires are like animals that's already a really bad grade. We humans are supposed to be much better than that. I'm not defending billionaires at all. I'm saying one should compare them to something else. There are much better and more effective ways to criticize them than this.
Well there's always this more "humane" take:
Yes because they don't have enough food.
When they are full they move on with their lives. Hoarding behavior, like with squirrels and nuts is rare and even when present is usually because they aren't smart enough to remember their hiding spots.
That all being said, we are human the whole idea is that we can moderate behaviors and not only act on instinct.
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