But there are rare things nobody wants or needs, and there are unrare things that everybody wants or needs.

Thankfully water and air arent scarce!

Commodification is artificial scarcity. Well, a recent example is being in a submarine.

Marx is a child who feels entitled to everyone else’s stuff 😛 I don’t care what Marx says, because he’ll have to kill me to accomplish it

He's not around to defend himself, let's not name call.

It is interesting though

Marx was basically a NEET his entire life

r/K selection theory in play. Scarcity and abundance, and how different creatures (and people) select from it

> Marx was basically a NEET his entire life
@Lemele Blatantly false.

When they say “saving money” and “working hard” are “white people” things, they aren’t completely wrong.

If your ancestors survived winters in the mountains, those who couldn’t do those things did not get to reproduce.

If your ancestors lived on the equator, they didn’t have winters to plan for. Totally different survival strategy!

So, although I agree scarcity plays a role in behavior, I don’t think it relates to wealth in the way that seems to be implied.

But maybe there’s something there.

You can generate wealth in a environment of abundance too. The incentive structure just may not be there.

Where are the great cities on the equator? :/

I just googled it, and I now want to visit Quito, Ecuador

There are tons of great cities near the equator. But it is an interesting assertion that I'll frame as a question.

Do early man survival tendencies extend to modern financial planning?
Or maybe they just don't teach good financial planning in poor schools?

If behaviors can be selected for, absolutely.

Genetics and behavior are not disconnected

Men and women present very differently both physically and behaviorally, so why wouldn’t people with vastly different, if clustered, genetics?

they don't teach good financial planning in american school, period

Having different body parts (or missing body parts) will also influence behavior. We shouldn’t assume that behavior is independent of our genetics, because all the evidence points otherwise

I framed it as a question to avoid making assertions that I don't know.

inb4 "my school did"

Parents in poor areas probably don't have the best financial advice to pass down to their kids

Yea but you can teach whatever you want, some people just won’t care or be interested in it, they will prefer other survival strategies

Knowledge and practice are also entirely different

Some people would prefer to be taken care of. Others will prefer to take care of themselves. Some are social, some aren’t. We are very different, behavioral, at an individual level AND we are different, behaviorally, at a cultural level.

It's hard to distinguish nature from nurture without genetic research and omniscient type of nurture records.

You can know all the same things and still behave very differently

True, but why is the question here.

> It's hard to distinguish nature from nurture without genetic research and omniscient type of nurture records.
@Malachi

agreed, which is why the most sensible thing to say is that it is probably some combination of both

There are 3 aspects: nature, nurture and choice. And each person, let alone each culture, have different natures, environments (nurtures), and make different choices. These all influence each other, which is rather awesome! This is why I optimize for freedom, with the stipulation of .. we can defend life when it is infringed on

I'm doing my business 300 homework currently. The prof wants us to read section of a a book called "I Will Make You Rich." The first section I read is a total lie. it's so annoying.

pyramid scheme? xD

I’m much more ok with different behavioral strategies being tried than my leftist counterparts seem to be, yet I care much more about boundaries and the freedom to say no than they do.

We are different

> pyramid scheme? xD
@drenath High energy financial planning guru. It's the worst sort of BS.

Lol nobody who writes a self help book starts the book with “well, see, first I read a self help book”

I’d love to see that

> @drenath High energy financial planning guru. It's the worst sort of BS.
@Malachi A lot to learn from bad ideas. Could be that the teacher is trying to identify who will call BS on it

I'm sure the book is fine and well intentioned. It's just not my style.

How is it wrong? What are his tenets to being rich?

It was an example that he used that was incorrect. Not the subject matter itself.

I’d have to read the book to make any sort of comment there

Or perhaps you can share the excerpt