• knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Then how is it possible that humanity developed society and technology for millennia by cooperating and being a social species, but all of a sudden human nature is a greedy selfish free for all? Could it be that capitalism rewards and even requires corruption and exploitation?

    • RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Do you really believe that greed is a more recent phenomenon and that we've survived this long as humanity because we're a social species that works for the betterment of ourselves?

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        You clearly didn't understand the poster. It's not about greed existing, it's about the system which explicitly incentivises greed and ruthless extremism in pursuing it. If you reward greed, the most greedy will inevitably come on top of it. What exactly do you expect from a system where competition is the highest virtue?