• yunxiaoli
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    8 days ago

    Except it does. Nearly all societies before the invention of currency worked on a lend and trade basis, depending on how close they were. Human nature genuinely isn’t greed. That is a learned condition for those not born with BPD or a sociopathy.

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      8 days ago

      And yet we’ve developed faster and faster until this point with no signs of slowing down. Do you really think you don’t have it a million times better today than somebody living in a time of barter and trade? Back when infant mortality was 50%, and disease had no cures?

      https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past

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        8 days ago

        Correlation without even a hint of causality isnt exactly a good argument.