Why is our stress system more suited for “getting attacked by lions” than modern financial worries?
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Humans as a species has spent far far far longer getting attacked by lions than dealing with modern finances.
For hundreds of thousands of years, humans who didn’t stress over possible lions all died. Only those who stress over lions, even too much, were left.
Financial mistakes don’t weed out people nearly as effectively, and even if they did, it hasn’t been long enough.
Because humans have been around far, far, far longer than the idea of “finance” and we’ve spent most of that time having to worry about predators
Because once the lion is gone, the stress is over.
Financial worries lasts months or years and our bodies weren’t built to handle that stress for long periods of time.
Because when we evolved we didn’t have modern financial worries, but we did get eaten by lions.