The Guilt Trip Bandit Exploits r-selected Psychologies

Kind of funny:

A black guy walks into a phone store, and when he is handed a phone on a chain, accuses the store clerk of handing him a chained phone because he is a black man and the clerk is racist. The clerk proceeds to hand him a phone that is not on a chain and he takes it and runs out the door with it.

This is two r-selected psychologies bumping into each other. One wants free resources, and figures out a clever way to have those resources handed to him, so he can get them without conflict. The other is too busy trying to avoid conflict to realize there is a real cost to be had to letting the phone run away.

If this was real r-selection, and the store was shipped thousands of free phones each day, far more than they could sell, that stupid attitude would actually offer superior survival advantage. Giving the phone away and avoiding conflict, or doing whatever it took to avoid being socially out-grouped due to allegations of racism would be wise. Any lost phone would not have a practical reproductive cost, whereas the social denigration, or the conflict would have real cost.

But the instant times turn K, your psychology must too – and when it does one part of that is not caring if someone calls you a racist. In K-selection, reputation is meaningless compared to success in resource acquisition and protection.

Tell others about r/K Theory, because you won’t just be saying it because somebody is a black guy