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Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Using CRISPR-Cas9, scientists engineered a yeast to produce the nutrient feed. Farmers could have it in two years.

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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

How do you explain that 99.99% of people are super happy living their lives with just enough money to have somewhere to live and pay for food and some vehicle?

Further, how do you explain that, for most of human history, we haven't lived in economic systems that reward greed in the way Capitalism does? Saying human beings are neurologically wired to behave in an especially greedy way, under Capitalism, is just recency bias.

Is that urge extent in people? Sure, but so are kindness, generosity, and plenty of other traits that run counter to greed and selfishness. To say that the negative ones incentivized by the economic system we live in are somehow more natural than those others, is nonsense.

[–] ZombieChicken@reddthat.com 0 points 4 hours ago

Two issues:

  1. Most of history isn't written, and when it has been, it was the ruling class that wrote it.
  2. Most of, if not all, the world has been under a ruler of some form for the vast majority of it's history

Don't start thinking that Capitalism started with The Wealth of Nations. Greed has always been there, and it has always been rewarded.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

100% agree, and its sad that we never get encouraged to think about all the good qualities people actually have also. Almost every single human being here, from 8 billion or so, are happily living in peace with other humans.

People who dont, are world "leaders" , or in prison.