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If capitalism is ‘natural,’ why was so much force used to build it?
(climateandcapitalism.com)
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If I take half your food... you better drop and show your belly if you want to eat anything next time. You might want to stab me in the back, but as long as I bribe more and better individuals to protect me from wannabe backstabbers, I'll stay in power and you'll have to either give up that food, or get in bigger trouble. If you manage to assemble enough bottom dogs like yourself, or you bribe some bodyguards of your own... that's how wars get born.
How are you gonna bribe people if you're always screwing everyone over?
The traditional way is to not take any from the bodyguards and instead give them part of what I'd take from you, or directly task them with taking part of your food in exchange for a cut, while having them control each other and compete for my favor. Meanwhile, you'd have it harder to bribe anyone with what you had left if you don't want to starve.
Unless... are you stronger than others? Do you want to be a bodyguard and get a cut from taking food from others? 😏