• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    How do you know people are not greedy by nature? Wasn’t it people who invented capitalism?

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      Who knows people initial nature , but many cultures show that human greed can be controlled. Capitalism promote greed anf infinite growth

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      Elites invented capitalism. Those who already controlled most resources.

      Greed develops if individuals and groups get the possibility to capture way too many resources without any limits or consequences.

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        People let those other people control resources, could it be because they shared the greed and thought they would benefit more from it by letting that happen?

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          Yeah sure , nobody in history resisted occupiers who came to steal their ressources. You think it’s easy to win against powerful people?

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          People let those other people control resources

          Who would be able to take it away from them? They’ll do everything possible to keep them. Move it, buy politicians, etc.

          could it be because they shared the greed and thought they would benefit more from it by letting that happen?

          You mean trickle down and that bs?

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            Who would be able to take it away from them? They’ll do everything possible to keep them. Move it, buy politicians, etc.

            A sufficient amount of people, it has happened a couple of time in history.

            You mean trickle down and that bs?

            Yes the belief in such thing. If we go back to early society, it could be agreeing to follow a leader because you believe you’ll get more resources from working for his group than by yourself.

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      According to anthropologists, for the vast majority of human history, humans operated based on gift economies. Money is a much more recent invention. Capitalism is an even more recent invention.

      Humans existed for around 200,000 years.