RE: How Profits Make Us Less Humane

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How Profits Make Us Less Humane

in informationwar •  5 years ago 

I'll take the capitalism of today over that communism all day long.

No, you'll take the technological progression of today over the non existence of technology back then. Defenders of capitalism have this special talent for confusing progress with economy... I'll even take it a step further and claim that capitalism incentivizes a wholly wrong kind of innovation and arrests true progress through silly schemes like "Intellectual Property Rights" and "Patents".

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I'm afraid that you made an excellent argument not only for capitalism but for the systems that preceded it as well.

190k years with no visible progress at all. The State emerges and 10k years later - we went to the Moon.

  ·  5 years ago Reveal Comment

We've been stagnant for 10k years, since we went from equal and truly free people to the class divide that has suppressed the masses all that time.

You're ignoring the existence of chieftains, little monarchs, that ruled over us during that period. Are the archaeologist of today finding the ordinary graves of ordinary humans or that of the rulers? Even then some animals were more equal than others.

That's another negative my friend; 10k years later a handful of us went to the moon, the rest of us are still asking "when moon?", "when Lambo?" ;-)

Fair enough. But 10k years later you've got two of us arguing on the blockchain-powered website instead of worrying whether or not we'll please the local warlord ;-)

You're ignoring the existence of chieftains, little monarchs...

Those didn't exist before we stopped being nomadic tribes; those existed after the invention of the aforementioned plough, before we settled down in towns, cities, city-states, states and nations eventually. You're making my point here, for which I'm grateful :-)

But 10k years later you've got two of us arguing on the blockchain-powered website instead of worrying whether or not we'll please the local warlord ;-)

Warlords are indeed local, and always on the prowl for additional localities. With that I refer to the previous point ;-)