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      10 months ago

      Capitalism really couldn’t happen to this degree until industrialism became a thing.

      I mean, all you have to do is look at all of recorded human history to see that we’re not an altruistic or compassionate species. A person might be altruistic or compassionate, but people aren’t. If people were, communism would actually work.

      Regardless, tribalism isn’t a good thing because you end up with ‘that persons skin color is different from mine and that’s bad.’

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          10 months ago

          Communism works for small communities, like 2-300 people (which incidentally is the size of the tribes we developed to be part of).

          And while altruistim and compassion have existed, they’re by no means traits in the majority of humans. Humans are selfish, greedy animals. Some of us might realize this and work to be better, but that means we’re fighting our natural tendencies.