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"...capitalism works because it reflects human nature as selected for through thousands of generations of evolution" (hexbear.net)
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Time to break out the ol’ reliable of Marx quotes:

Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own is an emanation from God.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. It's also helpful to point out that capitalism has only been around for a few hundred (400?) years, which is crazy when you consider how long humans have been around. It really took a long time for this expression of human nature to emerge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

yeah but thousand of generations have chosen it.. long before it was conceived.. that's how awesome it is

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago

>be "scientist"
>study humans under capitalism
>distill theory of human nature
>apply it to history
>use that as proof that capitalism is just human nature

Liberal social science in a nutshell

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago

brb gonna use this argument for slavery and patriarchy

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Yeah totally normal for people going about their business to use 5.6% more energy every year.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Famously capitalist societies, neolithic stone men

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

They actually think think that bronze age people were capitalist because they define capitalism as "when there's trade".

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

Humans are just dumb animals that will kill each other so that's why Elon is picking ME (enlightened) to inherit his billions! so-true

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Link https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1739684729782243633

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Who's out here blurring out Nate Silver's name, lol he's a public figure.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

blurred out but not so much you can't recognize it either, weird

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

The End of Evolution by Francis Fukuyama

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Capitalism is like Tuberculosis

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ya know , God bless Billy bronze. It is really helpful to me to know that there are people who run this traffic jam who are dumber than room temperature mashed potatoes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He doesn't run shit. He got a lucky guess on a single election and has been riding on that ever since.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yeah but people listen too him because he guessed an election right.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

wait, is that the 538 dude? Why has it been blurred out?

(dogshit take obviously, it's like these people have never heard about anthropology and sociology - or, as it might be the case here, purposefully ignore them)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

generously attributing a generation to be 30 years, 1000s of generations infers capitalism has been chugging along for at least 30,000 years, haha good one

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

People who say things like this don't believe capitalism is a specific economic mode, but rather, a vaguely defined set of character traits or even abstract ideas. They'll say ancient Rome was capitalist because there were merchants and money. They'll say atoms are capitalist because they trade electrons. It's a very unserious framework and they use it because it allows them to define capitalism as "good thing" and everything else as "bad thing."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Capitalism is when you trade clams for flint arrowheads and the more clams you get the capitalister it is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

i like how they assume resource use is static throughout history and that capitalism = more time to produce because of human nature. Why didn't we overproduce the earth to death 4 million bajillion years ago?