"...capitalism works because it reflects human nature as selected for through thousands of generations of evolution"
"...capitalism works because it reflects human nature as selected for through thousands of generations of evolution"
Time to break out the ol’ reliable of Marx quotes:
Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own is an emanation from God.
Thank you. It's also helpful to point out that capitalism has only been around for a few hundred (400?) years, which is crazy when you consider how long humans have been around. It really took a long time for this expression of human nature to emerge.
yeah but thousand of generations have chosen it.. long before it was conceived.. that's how awesome it is
>be "scientist"
>study humans under capitalism
>distill theory of human nature
>apply it to history
>use that as proof that capitalism is just human natureLiberal social science in a nutshell
brb gonna use this argument for slavery and patriarchy
Yeah totally normal for people going about their business to use 5.6% more energy every year.
Famously capitalist societies, neolithic stone men
They actually think think that bronze age people were capitalist because they define capitalism as "when there's trade".
Humans are just dumb animals that will kill each other so that's why Elon is picking ME (enlightened) to inherit his billions!
Who's out here blurring out Nate Silver's name, lol he's a public figure.
blurred out but not so much you can't recognize it either, weird
The End of Evolution by Francis Fukuyama
Capitalism is like Tuberculosis
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He doesn't run shit. He got a lucky guess on a single election and has been riding on that ever since.
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wait, is that the 538 dude? Why has it been blurred out?
(dogshit take obviously, it's like these people have never heard about anthropology and sociology - or, as it might be the case here, purposefully ignore them)
generously attributing a generation to be 30 years, 1000s of generations infers capitalism has been chugging along for at least 30,000 years, haha good one
People who say things like this don't believe capitalism is a specific economic mode, but rather, a vaguely defined set of character traits or even abstract ideas. They'll say ancient Rome was capitalist because there were merchants and money. They'll say atoms are capitalist because they trade electrons. It's a very unserious framework and they use it because it allows them to define capitalism as "good thing" and everything else as "bad thing."
Capitalism is when you trade clams for flint arrowheads and the more clams you get the capitalister it is.
i like how they assume resource use is static throughout history and that capitalism = more time to produce because of human nature. Why didn't we overproduce the earth to death 4 million bajillion years ago?