Capitalism – The default state of affairs since the Neolithic revolution

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   8-BIT BOBBY on August 5, 2023 at 12:14 am

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   Idea: Capitalism – The default state of affairs since the Neolithic revolution

   Link: https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/20...

   Should have enjoyed it while you could – now it’s gone!

   Capitalism Is Dead, Long Live Debtism

   Link: https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/i

   Should a loan that one neither intends nor is required to repay be considered debt or equity?

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   sunnyjim on August 4, 2023 at 12:20 pm

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   “We must change nature, but we can’t change human nature” has been the cry of the most serious conservationists. I don’t see the point.

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   Seal Dwidakiss on August 3, 2023 at 8:17 pm

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   Idea: Capitalism – The default state of affairs since the Neolithic revolution

   Link: https://www.cato.org/policy-report/january...

   Agreed – Like many animals and all primates, humans form hierarchies of dominance. It is easy to recognize social hierarchies in modern life. Corporations, government, chess clubs, and churches all have formal hierarchical structures of officers. Where does it say we should strive to equal everything out so nobody has more than anybody else? And what would the cost be of trying to achieve such perfect equality?

   Capitalism and Human Nature

   Link: https://www.cato.org/policy-repo

   In the spring of 1845, Karl Marx wrote, “… the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of social relations.” Marx’s idea was that a change in the “ensemble of social relations” can change “the human essence.”

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   BenB on August 3, 2023 at 6:15 pm

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   Idea: Capitalism – The default state of affairs since the Neolithic revolution

   Link: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/06/capitalis...

   “In England in the seventeenth century, almost two-thirds of land was owned by landlords and worked by peasant tenants. The previous two centuries were characterised by violent struggles between peasant tenants and landlords over the rents and fines the latter could impose on the former. It was, Brenner observed, the victory of the landlords over the tenants that created the incredibly unequal property relations that would characterise English land ownership up until the present day.”

   Capitalism Is Not Natural

   Link: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/06

   Right-wingers defend capitalism as a system necessitated by human nature, but the market emerged out of specific historic conditions – it isn’t hardwired into our species.

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