Hacker News Reader

> Life is so much better if you just do what you evolved to do.

> Pair up, get a trade, build a home

You have evolved to reproduce.

Getting a trade, building a home are very recent constructs and certainly not what you "evolved to do"

Contributing to the resource needs of your social group and establishing a safe location to live and raise your young is exactly what you evolved to do. You aren't an amoeba, you're the most advanced mammal species on the planet. When you say "you evolved to reproduce" as if that doesn't include the other things I mentioned, you're kind of missing out on what gave you a survival advantage to begin with.

There are different reproductive strategies, but for the majority of men, raising a child to adulthood has been the way to go.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com