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Mickey7@lemmy.world 4 days ago99% of the conversing is nonsense and just a waste of productive time
We're social mammals and we will always spend large amounts of time engaging in social behaviour.
It maintains relationships, strengthens bonds, makes it easier to obtain aid, helps reinforce our positions within our identity groups, etc. etc.
Even when the words being shared are complete nonsense, conversing is never nonsense.
Being productive all the time is for suckers with no actual lives.
Unless you count forming and maintaining social bonds as productive, which it absolutely is, in which case your point is just straight moot.
You’re a relatively large mammal. Your body is not designed to be productive all the time. It’s designed to have frequent periods of doing absolutely nothing. You’re also a pack animal whose survival depends on being social with other members of your pack.
So, wasting productive time by conversing nonsense? That’s how we evolved. It’s good for us.
finitebanjo@piefed.world 4 days ago
As opposed to all the "productive" things people do when not conversing?