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Capitalism and Human Nature

Conservatives and Liberals tend to defend capitalism by asserting that it is natural if not a reflection of human nature.
However when it is placed under any degree of scrutiny, this assertion reveals itself to be completly false!
Capitalism is a fairly recent phenomenon. Centuries before the Industrial Revolution precolonial and indigenious populations followed socialist and anarchist principles.
Even putting that aside human behaviour is diverse and has varied so much over the course of our history that the concept of calling any set of characteristics "Human Nature" is absurd.
The only consistent characteristic has been the abillity to adapt to our circumstances.
Therefore if the current system incentivizes greed people are logically going to be more greedy.
It stands to reason, then, that if humanity will adapt to the circumstances it is put under, we should adopt a system that would provide the most good to the most people.
As we have seen throughout it's existance Capitalism is not that system!
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Ynotisay · M
Capitalism is far from my perfect but I'm not sure there's another working alternative in the world that is more attractive. The only real difference are the levels of Socialism (and in some cases communism) that are built in to different nations. When it first came to be there were FAR fewer people. We could never have the systems in the past for that reason alone. Greed exists in humankind. That can't be eliminated. But the laws around greed, in concert with the laws around voting, have created the increasing disparity we see today. That's a very new element and one that needs to be tackled. At least in the U.S..