If you want to see Mass suicides, implement universal basic income.
On the other hand, a lot of the people in power want to see Mass suicides. Damn poors and their soaking up resources the 0.1% could be using!!!
On the other hand, a lot of the people in power want to see Mass suicides. Damn poors and their soaking up resources the 0.1% could be using!!!
If you take away someone's work, that messes with their heads. We aren't built for that.
Cesar Milan talks about it a lot on his shows with respect to dogs, and obviously dogs aren't people, but there are a lot of similarities between dogs and people which is why we tend to get along. If you take a dog who's like a hurting dog like a sheepdog, and give them all the food that they'd ever need and never walk them never do anything with them then they start to do things that are harmful. They'll start tearing up the furniture. They'll start digging up the yard. They'll start barking at passers by, because they have a certain amount of energy that their body is set aside to do work during the day so that they can live, and there's a big problem when a dog whose breed had a job to do not only doesn't get to do that job, but doesn't get to do anything else instead. The results in that dog trying to use up that energy doing something else, but without anything to do they end up doing things that are destructive and negative. The answer for dogs is to put them to work. It's to go for walks, it's to play in the yard, it's to go to the park, and if you do that then the dog that was previously a problem animal becomes a perfectly behaved companion.
Of course, dogs are not the only animal that we've seen this in, and we have data showing that this applies to societies as well as individual animals. In the famous Mouse Utopia experiment, mice were given more than enough room to live, more than enough food, and there were no natural predators. Under such circumstances, and the most society grew for a little while, but eventually ended up having a number of pathologies in the society that ultimately led to a colony collapse.
Finally, in my view there are human examples of this as well.
Keep in mind that most of human history has been extremely brutal. Forget about humans and other humans for a minute, humans have always been at odds with nature. In africa, we had to stand up against malaria and other diseases, as well as megafauna that can and will kill us fully dead, and once we left Africa every new environment that we went to had new and different challenges. Until the development of the heavy plow, Western Europe was very difficult to live in, combining different dangerous animals with an annual freeze that is more than enough to kill human beings who evolved on the Savannah. Scientists are aware of a genetic choke point called mitochondrial eve where the human race came so close to extinction that a single woman is the mother of the entire human race from that point forward. That's how dangerous the world has been for humans.
So with that historical context in mind, I have two different opposite examples: first, the kids of the ultra rich. Many of those kids end up totally fucked up because they know full well they don't need to do anything in their lifetime to survive. Many commit suicide, overdose on drugs, crash their sports cars or planes, or otherwise destroy themselves and waste the legacy their parents left them. Good rich parents force their kids to work (even if it's make work jobs) so they can grow up to pass the legacy on as well. Second, native reserves in canada tend to provide the basics of what people need to live. Someone comes in and builds all the houses, they tend to get vehicles, they get all the food that they're going to need, and it is the worst nightmare hell hole you've ever lived in your life. There's more to it than that, I will grant you, but I think a big part of it is the fact that they don't need to do anything to survive. Some people point out that the areas of these reserves are aren't very nice, but those same bloodlines lived in the same places for 20,000 years before today without the same problems that we see now.
I could go on all day, but I won't. There are just too many examples of taking away a person's need to go out and do something in order to earn their survival leading directly to suicidal behavior. We human beings just aren't wired for it.
Cesar Milan talks about it a lot on his shows with respect to dogs, and obviously dogs aren't people, but there are a lot of similarities between dogs and people which is why we tend to get along. If you take a dog who's like a hurting dog like a sheepdog, and give them all the food that they'd ever need and never walk them never do anything with them then they start to do things that are harmful. They'll start tearing up the furniture. They'll start digging up the yard. They'll start barking at passers by, because they have a certain amount of energy that their body is set aside to do work during the day so that they can live, and there's a big problem when a dog whose breed had a job to do not only doesn't get to do that job, but doesn't get to do anything else instead. The results in that dog trying to use up that energy doing something else, but without anything to do they end up doing things that are destructive and negative. The answer for dogs is to put them to work. It's to go for walks, it's to play in the yard, it's to go to the park, and if you do that then the dog that was previously a problem animal becomes a perfectly behaved companion.
Of course, dogs are not the only animal that we've seen this in, and we have data showing that this applies to societies as well as individual animals. In the famous Mouse Utopia experiment, mice were given more than enough room to live, more than enough food, and there were no natural predators. Under such circumstances, and the most society grew for a little while, but eventually ended up having a number of pathologies in the society that ultimately led to a colony collapse.
Finally, in my view there are human examples of this as well.
Keep in mind that most of human history has been extremely brutal. Forget about humans and other humans for a minute, humans have always been at odds with nature. In africa, we had to stand up against malaria and other diseases, as well as megafauna that can and will kill us fully dead, and once we left Africa every new environment that we went to had new and different challenges. Until the development of the heavy plow, Western Europe was very difficult to live in, combining different dangerous animals with an annual freeze that is more than enough to kill human beings who evolved on the Savannah. Scientists are aware of a genetic choke point called mitochondrial eve where the human race came so close to extinction that a single woman is the mother of the entire human race from that point forward. That's how dangerous the world has been for humans.
So with that historical context in mind, I have two different opposite examples: first, the kids of the ultra rich. Many of those kids end up totally fucked up because they know full well they don't need to do anything in their lifetime to survive. Many commit suicide, overdose on drugs, crash their sports cars or planes, or otherwise destroy themselves and waste the legacy their parents left them. Good rich parents force their kids to work (even if it's make work jobs) so they can grow up to pass the legacy on as well. Second, native reserves in canada tend to provide the basics of what people need to live. Someone comes in and builds all the houses, they tend to get vehicles, they get all the food that they're going to need, and it is the worst nightmare hell hole you've ever lived in your life. There's more to it than that, I will grant you, but I think a big part of it is the fact that they don't need to do anything to survive. Some people point out that the areas of these reserves are aren't very nice, but those same bloodlines lived in the same places for 20,000 years before today without the same problems that we see now.
I could go on all day, but I won't. There are just too many examples of taking away a person's need to go out and do something in order to earn their survival leading directly to suicidal behavior. We human beings just aren't wired for it.
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