The Nature of Mimetic Desire with Rob Henderson (WiM351)
The "What is Money?" Show
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The Evolution of Rebelliousness
Robert Klitzman: One of the most common threads between Bitcoiners is that they tend to be extremely disagreeable. Do you think there's an evolutionary impulse there? Maybe it's like as kids come into adolescence, they have this impulse to sort of be disagreeable with the family such that they branch out and find their own way. He says in a lot of hunter-gatherers societies, parents do actually hold quite a bit of sway in terms of influence over young people.klitzman: There may be an evolutionary impulse here where status is conferred through peer group rather than sex.
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