Imo, "Capitalism is human nature" is kinda nonsensical because a lot of things are "human nature", including a lot of contradictory and mutually exclusive things. Are competition, greed and the desire to hoard wealth human nature? Sure. But kindness, cooperation and sharing resources are unarguably human nature as well. Everyone has, at some point in their life, harmed someone else or screwed someone over. But everyone has also helped someone else, or given something away expecting nothing in return.
Capitalism enables and rewards the worst aspects of "human nature" while punishing and suppressing the best ones.
One of the oldest disabled adult bodies ever found was from thousands of years ago. From her remains, the archaeologists determined that she was likely never able to walk. However, the only thing that seemed wrong with her body was her teeth. They were in bad shape because she was fed a lot of dates, probably because they were sweet. The fact that there has pretty much always been humans who take care of their disabled family like that proves to me that humans are naturally caring.
Imagine a nomadic group of humans give birth to someone who is paralyzed from the neck down at birth in a time before wheels. If humans were that selfish, we wouldn't see life long high needs disabled people living into their later years in that scenario. However, we still do. Many other creatures have very little tolerance for genetic variance, humans by comparison are amazing about this.
Since culture plays such an important role in how people act, I always argue that if we want to determine what "human nature" is, we must look at humans in nature, ie pre-agricultural societies. And as every internet leftist knows, those societies were typically much more egalitarian. Libs destroyed with facts and logic
Imo, "Capitalism is human nature" is kinda nonsensical because a lot of things are "human nature", including a lot of contradictory and mutually exclusive things. Are competition, greed and the desire to hoard wealth human nature? Sure. But kindness, cooperation and sharing resources are unarguably human nature as well. Everyone has, at some point in their life, harmed someone else or screwed someone over. But everyone has also helped someone else, or given something away expecting nothing in return.
Capitalism enables and rewards the worst aspects of "human nature" while punishing and suppressing the best ones.
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One of the oldest disabled adult bodies ever found was from thousands of years ago. From her remains, the archaeologists determined that she was likely never able to walk. However, the only thing that seemed wrong with her body was her teeth. They were in bad shape because she was fed a lot of dates, probably because they were sweet. The fact that there has pretty much always been humans who take care of their disabled family like that proves to me that humans are naturally caring.
Imagine a nomadic group of humans give birth to someone who is paralyzed from the neck down at birth in a time before wheels. If humans were that selfish, we wouldn't see life long high needs disabled people living into their later years in that scenario. However, we still do. Many other creatures have very little tolerance for genetic variance, humans by comparison are amazing about this.
Since culture plays such an important role in how people act, I always argue that if we want to determine what "human nature" is, we must look at humans in nature, ie pre-agricultural societies. And as every internet leftist knows, those societies were typically much more egalitarian. Libs destroyed with facts and logic