licks fingers and wets eyebrows

Hahah! An unethical study to quantify the survival value of ethics! Isaac Newton would agree that experiments are a necessity!

An economst’s natural experiment, hehe! oh Adam Smith, when does self interest become greed?

Bioengineer some humans to not be greedy.

Some humans because you can opt out, or you can choose it for your designer baby. Then there is a control and an experimental group.

The mad scientist in me is dying to see whether behaviors with moral connotations (greed) confer an advantage for survival.

I don’t think scantions work.

With as many participants as there are in the global economy it makes sense: the sanctioned country can easily change suppliers and not have to change policy.

Prior to the war in Iran, the US had sanctions on Iranian goods, especially oil. Iran has been selling mostly to China. Crude oil is about 56% of Iran’s exports.

The point is, Iran still sells crude oil and makes revenue.

(I’m not defending Trump, he scrapped the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and (re)imposed sanctions on Iran.)

Reminds me of the anime PsychoPass.