"There's a decent case to be made for that, but there's also (IMO) a decent amount of evidence that the desire for it is fairly hard-wired."
Human wiring didn't evolve under capitalist conditions. Would the desire to leave inheritance be as strong if people were confident that their children would never suffer poverty? When people talk about negative behaviors as "hard-wired", I generally recall the Rat Park experiments.
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Date: 2020-05-12 05:56 am (UTC)Human wiring didn't evolve under capitalist conditions. Would the desire to leave inheritance be as strong if people were confident that their children would never suffer poverty? When people talk about negative behaviors as "hard-wired", I generally recall the Rat Park experiments.