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[–] yunxiaoli 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tb0n3 -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] yunxiaoli 2 points 1 week ago

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