• untorquer@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    It’s in our genetics to engage in a perpetual exponential quarterly growth and make our decisions based on the benefit it brings to our investors. Any caveman could tell you that smh…

    E: my god it’s a hyperbolically absurd take in memes and even with the caveman comment I still need to /s apparently…

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      4 hours ago

      No, but greed and envy is. That’s why humans have written so much in the last thousand years about greed and envy.

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      5 hours ago

      If you ran humanity in thousands of simulations how often would we end up in the same capitalistic situation?

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        Far less often than we end up with communalist hunter gatherers and early agrarian communes and evidently for a much shorter time. Does that mean feudalism can never work? Capitalism is never at any point of productive development possible?

        If you’ve never studied an economics text (a real, materialist one, not fucking graphs with conveniently simple and clean cut rules that never seem to apply and zero fucking statistics) then try not to speak so authoritatively on economics.

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          4 hours ago

          Your words make no sense to me. If you want to convey ideas use the common tongue. It feels like you have some neat ideas though.

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        So many it would be hard to count, at least 4 or 5. But numbers don’t really go much higher than that. Any caveman could tell you that.