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robinoberg@feddit.uk to Economics@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

We live in the capitalocene

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We live in the capitalocene

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robinoberg@feddit.uk to Economics@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago
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  • rapchee@lemmy.world
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    it only took ~12 000 years to “naturally gravitate to capitalism”

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      I dunno man, ever since someone invented money, there always were rich and poor people, and class division

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        using money does not mean it’s capitalism
        but i do think that capitalism is better than feudalism and most, if not all that came before
        but i also think that we need to move further, or we’re getting screwed

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        Capitalism arose well after money, it’s a specific mode of production.

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          Yeah, because the previous prelevant system, feudalism, was so fair and not at all exploitative of the poor by the rich

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            Feudalism was also exploitative, but in a different manner and character as the class character was different. I don’t see what your point is, here.

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        Wrong again. The earliest date possible you could put on the emergence of class societies, would be ~12k years ago with the agricultural revolution. Modern humans emerged about 300k years ago, and 2 million years if you want to consider other close relatives.

        So most charitably, class societies have only existed for 4% of human history, or 0.6%

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          Okay, I said “when money was invented” not “when humanity emerged” mr WRONG AGAIN 🙄 Learn to read if you want to be bitchy on the Internet

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