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[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 62 points 11 months ago

OK, I'll bite: What systems reward kindness?

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 51 points 11 months ago
[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

How else do you play golf?

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[-] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 29 points 11 months ago

For one, hunter-gatherer tribes before the rise of civilisation were most certainly built on kindness and cooperation

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 48 points 11 months ago

Except towards other tribes. Can't have them clear our hunting grounds, now can we?

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 38 points 11 months ago

Check out The Dawn of Everything, puts to rest a lot of the myths about prehistoric societies that we tell ourselves. Early societies were consciously experimenting with different social arrangements and they were far more peaceful and egalitarian than we usually give them credit for. Their ideas on property were vastly different than ours as well. There wasn't really an "our hunting grounds" to speak of. If you're interested I'll leave this video by Andrewism about human history. It's well sourced and pretty informative

[-] Lesrid@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

Turns out to have warring tribes you need to be organized enough to carry out a war.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Jericho had walls when most of the rest of humanity was nomadic hunter-gatherers.

City walls generally weren't built because people feel safe and secure already.

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[-] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There was plenty for everyone since there were a lot fewer people, plus there were no real territories that people claimed over longer periods at all since we were nomads.

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[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

The Agrarian Revolution really was where humanity started going downhill.

[-] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 4 points 11 months ago

This is true, but agriculture is a trap in the sense that once we adopted it, there was no turning back.

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[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

It's not just about systems, It's about conditions. Certain conditions make certain strategies more profitable - see game theory. I think low population density and hard life conditions cam lead to kindness being among the winning strategies.

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[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

criminal diversion programs

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[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago

I'm glad that there is goodness in the world as well!

It might be a bit hidden away, but I encourage y'all to look closer and feel its might! ❤
And go ahead and create some more yourself!

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[-] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

Let the greedy fend off for themselves in the desert and see how far it gets them.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 10 points 11 months ago

They've always been handed everything, so they lack any useful survival skills, and they would definitely perish in the desert.

So I say it's a great idea.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

That's not capitalism, lol. Modern life has left the majority of people without any real survival skills.

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[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago
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