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yndoendo an hour ago

Social constructs are bought and paid for by the wealthy.

Most people want a clean environment while the current US administration is pulling back environmental regulations to allow for more pollutants. The current US Supreme Court has taken gifts from those that have invested interest in the outcome of their judgements.

Social axioms are mutable while mathematical axioms are immutable.

Human trafficking is bad. How many of the wealthy that partook of Epstein's trafficking have been prosecuted? This shows that human trafficking being bad is mutable based on wealth and power.

qarl an hour ago | parent [-]

> Social constructs are bought and paid for by the wealthy.

Well... no. I'd say that most of the social constructs I'm thinking of predate wealth. Most likely shaped by evolutionary pressures.

> mathematical axioms are immutable

I invite you to Google "the axiom of choice" to see a lively debate.

zdragnar 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

So long as there have been people, there have been those who had more than others, be it material goods or power, which gains more material goods, which begets power. I'm not really sure there it's true that any society predates wealth, ergo no social construct predates wealth.

pixl97 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

>ergo no social construct predates wealth.

How wealthy is your dog?

qarl 35 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Right. I'm thinking of social behaviors that predate humans.