In the same way I think in the real world there are parties that try to get people to entrench scarse mindset as a natural way how things are and use propagandist means to do so. Fossil resource energy companies might try to hinder the invention of cleaner forms of energy or make their adoption later so that their business sector lasts longer. They have a vested interest in keeping people minds that energy scarcity is at the current level and not be too inquisitive about how it might change in the future.
This is a good model of scarcity (as a way of thinking) - in which something is not viewed as a constraint to be eliminated, but as inescapable/unchangeable.
In certain sense adopting economics as a wide dominant thought force could make me assume everybody is a psychopath and that families should be impossible.
Evo-psych might be more useful here. If this economic frame makes bad predictions concerning measurable testable things (like the literal prisoner’s dilemma, which there might be real world data on) concerning how people actually work then either the model is missing something* or it’s not very predictive in that domain**.
*Altruism, a desire to appear altruistic, if your family is related to you then “genetic” fitness isn’t just served by pursuing your own wellbeing, perhaps having friends/not “being a psychopath” is “rational”, etc.
**If it describes the behavior of companies, then it is a useful tool to have. Especially if it tells you how to avoid being screwed over.
This is a good model of scarcity (as a way of thinking) - in which something is not viewed as a constraint to be eliminated, but as inescapable/unchangeable.
Evo-psych might be more useful here. If this economic frame makes bad predictions concerning measurable testable things (like the literal prisoner’s dilemma, which there might be real world data on) concerning how people actually work then either the model is missing something* or it’s not very predictive in that domain**.
*Altruism, a desire to appear altruistic, if your family is related to you then “genetic” fitness isn’t just served by pursuing your own wellbeing, perhaps having friends/not “being a psychopath” is “rational”, etc.
**If it describes the behavior of companies, then it is a useful tool to have. Especially if it tells you how to avoid being screwed over.