this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Find resource, claim resource, take resource by force, exploit resource, expand reach, repeat

This is the fundamental basis of nature as a whole. Anything outside of this is either a temporary exception or a misinterpretation of data.

I'd argue this has existed for about 3.8 billion years, not 400. 400 years for the English word, sure..