We just have better medical and welfare systems which allow people to take more risks.
I would think it’s something like this, though I would put it differently: we’re not at subsistence anymore. If you’re at subsistence, then probably most of what you’re doing is just to get by, and if you deviate too much from it, you die and/or fail to reproduce.
Now that we have slack, we can take on bigger risks, speculate, and be creative and enterprising.
I would think it’s something like this, though I would put it differently: we’re not at subsistence anymore. If you’re at subsistence, then probably most of what you’re doing is just to get by, and if you deviate too much from it, you die and/or fail to reproduce.
Now that we have slack, we can take on bigger risks, speculate, and be creative and enterprising.