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This hits a big nail on the head. People go against their foundational natural intelligence and loose touch of what their basics needs are. Abstract appetites take over. Cleverness substitutes for intelligence, etc. What could be more abstract than effective altruism? They don't know how to go back to their foundations, which are not gone and will proceed to haunt them.

These huge appetites of ours. A Very Wealthy, Very Successful person eats huge proportions, can't metabolize it, shits out the excess, calls it wealth, puts in a storehouse for later use.

Really, a failure of education.

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