Perhaps it is time for economists and their apologists in politics to start looking at the core underpinnings of their systems.
Maybe greed and fear and envy are not inevitable features of human nature after all.
These results demonstrate the existence of inequity aversion in children, provide a new method for studying inequity aversion specifically, and suggest the need for new models to explain why inequity aversion may have evolved.
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Children discard a resource to avoid inequityResults demonstrate the existence of inequity aversion in children, provide a new method for studying inequity aversion specifically, and suggest the need for new models to explain why inequity aversion may have evolved.
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Ryan Moon says:
May 24, 2012 at 3:02 pm (UTC -7)
Children also eat sand… just saying. No comment on re:inequity, world orders, or the screwed up current paradigm. This "science" is idiotic. Why stop at 3-8 year olds? Why not study babies? They seem even less corrupted by the baleful influences of our society. Oh yeah, they don't know anything.
Natoya Rose says:
May 24, 2012 at 3:10 pm (UTC -7)
Another example of A.) experimenting on children in the name of research (my latest aversion) and, B.) crap science. Why the hell does this even matter. Honestly!!!!
Actually I would say the kids are highly likely to do exactly as their parents and significant others have trained them to do.
Chris George says:
May 24, 2012 at 3:10 pm (UTC -7)
The economic manipulators use "human nature" as their justification for the design of our system. But when science shows that our nature as humans is nothing like what they want it to be, it needs to be pointed out.
Now I can see our economic system accentuating and condoning and even requiring greed, envy and fear be taught as useful tools of control and wealth accumulation, but they really must stop their insistence that it is the exploitation of human nature that is driving its great "success".
Ryan Moon says:
May 24, 2012 at 3:33 pm (UTC -7)
You don't think the stronger conditioning is after 3-8 years of being told by parents, teachers, and television that not having an equal amount of pizza for everyone is a terrible evil that should be wiped out? (Ignoring the fact that 3-8 year olds have no idea where pizza comes from, how a pizza actually is made, and have no idea how scarcity works?)
People we would consider "children" had no trouble conquering the earth 2500 years ago with sword and fire from the Guadalquivir to the Ganges.
Chris George says:
May 24, 2012 at 3:38 pm (UTC -7)
+Ryan Moon We have no idea how scarcity works.
Apparently the cultural messaging is working.
Ryan Moon says:
May 24, 2012 at 4:27 pm (UTC -7)
Now you are on to something.