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RE: Global Fishing and the Tragedy of the Commons
"Man is naturally greedy". This is a meaningless statement that people throw without a second thought. What does natural greediness even mean? Greediness embedded in the genes? More likely the economic system forces humans to be greedy. Humans are naturally greedy is like saying coal miners are naturally born with lung cancer.
The statement in itself is just a figure of speech. It does not have to be in a bad way only and has nothing to do with the gene. I think every man is greedy by default and the environment plays a huge role in shaping our orientation to life
There isn't any default human nature. It is dynamic and changes accordingly to our material conditions.
"To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough." - Andrew Collier, Marx: A Beginner’s Guide