Edit: I’m too tired to debate, it’s not coming out how I intend, and tbh I don’t really feel any obligation to satisfy you.
Getting into a back and forth online in a no stakes social forum is asinine.
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Getting into a back and forth online in a no stakes social forum is asinine.
Science seeks to test new theories about the nature of reality, to improve human knowledge. It often relies on engineering to conduct experiment.
Engineering is for solving human problems at scale. Often based on scientific discovery, but not necessarily. Humans were selectively breeding food for years with no scientific theory of plant genetics.
And we kind of do not have the best track record with engineering things we can’t be sure of in the lab. Generally we do ok with tech, but bio engineering is much different.
What’s more the food industry has lied about what’s healthy for profit in the past. We have a habit of passing the buck to the next generation to cash out now.
Human avarice is enough for me to be against GMO given the plain track record (global warming, aforementioned lies by food producers, etc) of bullshit that was only found to be bullshit later.
That and I hate bananas.
I didn’t say there wasn’t a motivator. I said it isn’t money. Until about a hundred years ago, most folks were self employed and chased down whatever they needed for the day. It’s in that last few hundred it became mostly about money for the masses.
There are people that live isolated and off the grid lives, unmotivated by money & rat race. Your idea of survival & what makes a good life may not match up with others.
But in the context of daily life of the masses, you’re correct in that we all just chase the popular social meme. It HAPPENS TO BE money, but it could be bottle caps get you stuff that supply side is selling. It’s what supply side accepts or gtfo. The threat of being evicted from the only life one knows is not literal death, but it feels like it, so we chase money, not bottle caps as a pragmatic acquiescence to social forces.
It’s one thing to hear about something on TV and another entirely to change your entire life.
If it were “gotten” by the masses via Disney shows, we’d all stop chasing it at all.
Social ties and bonds existed before money, achieved via other means.
So yeah we don’t all “get it” in the same way. As someone with enough to retire on at 40, money feels pretty pointless to me. Same old cheeseburger or whatever Gates said.
It’s what other people gave me for satisfying their goals. ️
Economic anxiety, a policy pushed by financial planners, is what motivates. Not money.
A new Mac, Brewfile and dotfiles in git
New Linux, I wrote a bash script years ago that just iterates over an array of pkg names as strings, then clone dotfiles. It checks for apt or pacman; there was a time where I couldn’t pick and kept going back and forth between Debian and Arch ️
For some reason I can’t bring myself to run Homebrew on Linux, even though I know it supports that OS now.