In 500 years there will be fewer radicals than today as a percentage of the population. Fewer humanitarians. Fewer communists. More greedy scum. More sadistic monsters.
Until one day we are all no more than the beasts Capitalism already treats us as.
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Feudalism also rewarded the worst and greediest scum, for a lot longer than capitalism has, and the result was the Habsburg jaw.
But seriously comrade, the idea of 'dysgenia' is a dangerously reactionary concept, and thankfully more or less nonsense. Genetic changes in a population amounting to real 'evolution' of a species take tens of thousands of years to happen at the absolute minimum, and such a short time frame would need an EXTREME environmental pressure on a part of the genome that already has a high potential for change.
The genetic basis of personality, or whether there even is one, is a compete mystery - and I am inclined to believe that even if there is any influence, it can be easily overcome through changing people's material conditions. As a force, greed and sadism are already encouraged to far more effect by glamorized depictions of wealth and power in capitalist media, than by the extreme long-term selection by genetics. And consider this - which part of the population is in a position to be selected for greed and sadism? The ones already in charge as members of the capitalist class, and the population of the imperial core who (for now) have a material stake in supporting the Empire. For the entire rest of humanity, co-operation is by far the best chance for success.
But even that is not really important, because one way or another capitalism literally cannot exist 500 years from now. Either the global economy will have collapsed from the climate crisis, or capitalism will have been overcome by communism. So don't worry comrade, capitalism cannot be 'bred into our genes', any more than feudalism or slavery or hunter-gathering was.
Hey, with current demographic trends the current system would completely break in 50 years.
I think this is making the assumption that personality traits are genetic rather than environmental. Pretty sure that is not necessarily the case, though it’s still a pretty big debate.
I hate seeing the social cannibalism it promotes in everyday life, but it's a system that will break down on its own, I am hopeful in a strange way about it even though that means that it will get much worse first. A revolution will be a final kick to a pane of glass that's already shattered.
Capitalism will be bred into our very genes after generation upon generation of it being the selective pressure. Selecting for the worst human traits.
Thankfully actual evolution is a dreadfully slow process. This kind of societal changing can be undone if things change for multiple generations.
Capitalism will be bred into our very genes
Have you tried meth lately
Worry not, climate change is gonna make sure there's no people in 500 years.
CW: Ableism, but as someone with autism and sociopathic traits, this made me spit out my drink
Life and Times of Tim has a great bit on this. Starts at 10:28. In the episode, Tim almost gets fired for a Halloween costume not being appropriate, but saves his job by going to a child psychologist and getting a fake autism diagnosis (Tim probably actually is autistic, but the appointment was bunk). The higher ups at Omnicorp respond by percieving Tim to be able to get away with saying anything, so they have him start saying every awful thing they think, including telling their spouses that they're fat, or telling their kids Soccer team that Sheila and Meegan suck The episode ends with the higher ups discovering Tim faked his autism diagnosis and just lied about everything. Tim is worried he's going to be fired for this, but Boss responds by saying "No, you're a lying sociopath that does not care about the feelings of others at all, that's even better."
False premise. That might be true for a small set of the population. They are small isolated populations that often inbreeds. I have often wondered of there were special things to know about medicine for the royals for example. They probably have a very specific set of genetic traits a doctor would have to look out for.
However for the rest of us without capital being extra capitalist does us no good. Being kind and working together with others is actually much more beneficial for us. So there would be no pressure there.
