From: naccts (naccts@bowmans.info)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 11:52:01 MDT
Sac> First, my feeble understanding of the modern understanding of evolution is that when Darwin said "Survival of the Fitest" he did not mean the strongest; he mean't the most successfully adaptive.
Sac> If strong is what is needed to succeed, fine; if running or flying like a bat out of hell works well enough, so you can breed and pass along your traits. also good.
Sac> As for humans, I suspect that what succeeds for humans is not only academic skills, but social competition. The most agressive and assertive persons, who possess people skills and the ability to
Sac> hire good speech writers and policy makers and deliver said speeches, is what these Republics we live in are all about.
Sac> The most intellectually gifted in astronomy, for example, are not at the exact head of the chow-line. I mean, astronomers do well enough, and love what they do, but their paychecks do not match
Sac> that of Corporation CEO's (Pre-Prison income only!)
Adaptation, yes, of course. This is where it is important in the human
world to be multi-skilled so that you can use all the resources at
hand to develop yourself.
Money is quite an important thing at the end of the day. I do not want
to be restricted in my development because of lack of money. I think
that the more I use my abilities to get money, the more I will be able
to use that money to develop myself. This fits into what has been said
about rich people reaping all the benefits of technological progress.
BIL.
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