• BigNote
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    1 year ago

    This is true. It’s because we evolved over many hundreds of thousands of years as egalitarian hunter-gatherers and only relatively recently invented things like agriculture, big stratified societies, the bulk accumulation of wealth and property and work.

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      1 year ago

      This reminds me of a recent meme pushing back against the “greed is human nature” narrative. Was something like:

      “If you see a bear riding a bicycle at the circus, do you assume it is the nature of bears to ride bicycles?”