Most people in capitalist countries never leave the economic bracket they were born into. Capitalism is a primitive system of elites and peasants, filled with squalor and death.

  • rah@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    But it doesn't even to serve to increase the chance of survival past a point.

    The driver is not just survival of the individual but survival of their genes. That is, procreation. And there's no point in the acquisition of power at which more power stops being sexually attractive.