The seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride are the "evils" that today's market-based economy exploits.
"'I would suggest that some of this," the prof said, "is built into the way in which we came over time to actually make decisions. The ability to reason is a relatively new arrival to which humans have not yet adapted.'"
Some corporations are passively engaged while other are deeply engaged in trying to exploit people's desires to fulfill these, um, inklings.
Of course, companies market needs AND wants AND tries to create DESIRE where there wasn't any previously. It's called salesmanship.
And, what's with the seven deadly sins and evolution and adaptation nonsense?
Were people born this way, learn these behaviors or evolve into such hopeless creatures?
The way I understand it, if we evolved (I don't believe for a moment that we did) then there is no sin. But that's off topic.
Is this the best that Harvard can do when it comes to speakers?
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