We are more a product of our environment than our genes.
Sorry but this is not what science says.
Please read up on this. There is plenty of material out there.
That's a giant steaming pile of bullshit. Twenty years ago the US population was 250 million, now it is well over 300 million.
20 years ago the fertility rate was probably higer. Today population increases are the sole result of immigration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... ility_rate
US 2.04 That is below the replacement rate of 2.1.
You like your technology, but only because you had enough time to get comfortable with it.
I am comfortable with technology, yes. Technology is responsible for the fact that I am still alive. Without it- let me see- I would so far have died of (and that excludes starving to death and freezing to death:
1. I had a lot of sore throats (angina) as a kid with high fever. That would have killed me then an there. Getting my tonsils removed at the age of 6 helped.
2. I had an inflamed appendix at the age of 10. Had to be surgically removed. Could have killed me then.
3. I had a heart attack at the age of 33. That could have been because of the angina as a kid, or because of stress or both.
Again what saved me was technology.
4. I am
very near sighted. I need glasses or contact lenses. Without those I would have run into something, or fallen over something that would have killed me many times so far.
Just a few examples. As I mentioned I deliberately excluded starving to death and freezing to death.
You know the house I live in was built with technology. The cloth I am wearing were made with technology.
The food I am eating is made with technology.
That is why all this is cheaper now than it ever was. That is why we have more to eat than we ever did.
And we don't have a choice, we work the first 10 minutes of the workday to meet our subsistence needs, the next few hours to pay taxes, and the remaining 6-8 hrs to line the wallet of our employer.
Like the many Austrians I am self employed. Most people here are either self employed or work in companies with less than 5 people!
Just to get you an idea:
I am working 10 hours a day+
My employees work 8 hours a day or less.
My employees earn more than I do and they know it.
I drive an old, used car, thanks.
You never got your head out of your corporate employment ass. That is the problem. Go ahead found your own company and see how that goes!
It astonishes me and pisses me off that humans work more hours in a year than nearly any other species on earth.
This is a giant pile of bullshit. Where did you get that idea from?
Also, what is "work"?
You can sit on your ass in a comfortable office chair all day long, or you can work on a field many more hours and try to farm whatever little nature will give you without technology.
Ever been hunting?
It takes many, many hours to "catch" something and more often than not you end up empty handed.