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Anon is tired (lemmy.ml)
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[-] Nutterthebutter@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is when you get off social media and live life with your family. It's so easy to fall into that mindset when you're going to areas where people crowd together since it ends up with large scope views and ideas.

[-] lukini@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

This isn't greentext

[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

About 300,000 years ago, when the first humans were born.

The problems being described in this post are the result of the greed of the wealthy, and that has been menacing humanity for as long as there's been humanity.

[-] BigNote@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Not at all. For the vast majority of our time as a species we lived in small hunting and gathering bands wherein the accumulation of personal wealth and property wasn't really possible and one's status instead depended on merit. It's only with the dawn of agriculture, about 10k years ago, that the accumulation of personal wealth and private property becomes a thing. For better or worse, for reasons I don't have the time to go into here, agriculture is a kind of ratcheting trap, and once we embraced it we could never go back and never will.

The thing now is to recreate the small-scale egalitarianism that we evolved to live in, but how we do that in the material world we've created is far beyond me.

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[-] elouboub@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Give into the hate, anon. Join the sixth.

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