Poverty is a social construct caused by wealth hoarding
What?! As if non-human species don’t control access to resources… Keeping stuff for yourself (and your kin) rather than sharing with strangers is about as natural as a behavior can be. The social construct is actually the moral system that leads many humans to share.
The natural resource shortage or lack thereof is irrelevant. Look at those nature documentaries where a pack of healthy, well-fed animals drives away a starving loner.
It might surprise you but animals too show social interactions. They also sometimes hoard resources to the detriment of others. This too is a socially constructed shortage of a resource not a natural one.
But just like we (mostly) stopped just punching each other to resolve conflicts we could probably benefit from behaving differently, i.e. using different social strategies than animals to distribute natural resources
Yeah, cause theyre still guarding their resources. Some animals may have a bit more than others, but they still have a pretty finite source.
Humans on the other hand have more than enough resources for everybody multiple times over. But instead of feeding and housing everyone, we would rather they go to waste then help out the “starving loner”
Show me animals in the wild that will happily let thier food rot (besides to make them alcholic) just to spite other animals and you kinda have an argument. But even those animals which are guarding thier resources are still going to use it.
What?! As if non-human species don’t control access to resources… Keeping stuff for yourself (and your kin) rather than sharing with strangers is about as natural as a behavior can be. The social construct is actually the moral system that leads many humans to share.
Way to change the argument by leaving out half the sentence.
The natural resource shortage or lack thereof is irrelevant. Look at those nature documentaries where a pack of healthy, well-fed animals drives away a starving loner.
It might surprise you but animals too show social interactions. They also sometimes hoard resources to the detriment of others. This too is a socially constructed shortage of a resource not a natural one.
But just like we (mostly) stopped just punching each other to resolve conflicts we could probably benefit from behaving differently, i.e. using different social strategies than animals to distribute natural resources
Yeah, cause theyre still guarding their resources. Some animals may have a bit more than others, but they still have a pretty finite source.
Humans on the other hand have more than enough resources for everybody multiple times over. But instead of feeding and housing everyone, we would rather they go to waste then help out the “starving loner”
Show me animals in the wild that will happily let thier food rot (besides to make them alcholic) just to spite other animals and you kinda have an argument. But even those animals which are guarding thier resources are still going to use it.
I think “poverty” probably has a specific sociological definition which separates it from regular resource destitution.