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• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Capitalism is not human nature.

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  • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    what is capitalism?

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    • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production.

      There are special subdivisions with certain extra features, but the bare bones definition is just that.

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      • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Isn’t private ownership kind of an extension of territorialism which is present in many species? Makes you think, huh?

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    • hamsamrich@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      THIS IS CAPITALISM?

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      • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Anything you don’t like is capitalism. You can even apply it to your feelings and bodily ailments. “I’ve been feeling horribly capitalism today after my knee went all capitalism.”

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So like… nature?

  we are a societal race, that thrives on empathy and community.

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  • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    social animals, yes.

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yes, as I said.

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• Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Capitalism as a mode of production is only a few hundred years old. It’s essentially a mode of production where private ownership is the principal aspect of the economy, and capital owners control the state. Before capitalism was feudalism, and before feudalism came slave societies, and before those came tribal communalism.

  Human nature is incredibly malleable and depends most upon how we produce and distribute, how we live and how our environment shapes us.

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  • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    how is it different if you substitute economic capital with political capital?

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean the means of production and distribution.

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      • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        ok but why is it different if those that control these things accumulated economic capital or if they accumulated political capital?

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