Why is our stress system more suited for “getting attacked by lions” than modern financial worries?
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Because predatory cats were eating people long before someone came up with the idea of currency. It’s pretty safe to say humans were sometimes the hunter and sometimes the prey from the start, and with the first homo sapiens appearing about 315 thousand years ago, while the invention of money and something resembling the financial system started around 600 BC, you’ve got quite a lot of lead time for our stress systems to attenuate to dealing with predators than it did for fiscal matters.
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