Like, we’re destroying the one place we know is a sure bet on where we can prosper if we keep it healthy, but instead the world’s richest man is trying to expand to other planets while this one’s ability to sustain life is in jeopardy. IMO that makes us potentially a very stupid species compared to a species that doesn’t really care about meeting other aliens because they value the life on their own planet far more than we do.
that’s because capitalism is built into our nature. we are greedy little monkeys. most of us are motivated by the social need to feel like we are superior to other monkeys and easiest way to show that is to have more than they do.
people can daydream all the want that aren’t wired this way, but those are the same people who browbeat each other over the ‘true’ interpreation of marxism or whatever. their own version of monkey standing. and their ‘leaders’ are all grifting trust fund types .
Some are, and they have loud voices. We’re also helpful little monkeys who groom each other and take care of our sick and elderly. The quiet monkeys are a silent majority
Unfortunately, the greedy monkeys want our sick and elderly to die, so they can have their money.
Actually we’re hardwired for cooperation, as a hyper social animal. A single greedy human will out compete a social one, but a social group will out compete a greedy group.
The result of a zillion years of evolution in which the monkey that can gather more food and resources, also gathers followers, and gets laid more.
Fast forward a zillion years, and those fat greedy apes now control the world.
Now that we’re aware of the mechanism, all we need to do is spend the next zillion years forcing humanity down a different, more cooperative evolutionary path. That shouldn’t be any problem at all.
Sarcasm or?