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I don't agree humanities natural state was poverty. Yes, they were poor compared to now, but resources were shared and no one was "breaking out on their own". I
by La1n 6y ago
I don't agree humanities natural state was poverty. Yes, they were poor compared to now, but resources were shared and no one was "breaking out on their own". If you had a good hunt this was shared with the community, unlike the world we live in now were wealth is hoarded by a small few, so your comparison makes little sense.
- oblio 6y agoAh, the noble savage myth. Go read up just how friendly relations were between those noble savages were and how high the incidence of violence was. If you think we're more violent now, in the age of plenty...
- La1n 6y ago>If you think we're more violent now, Don't strawman me, I didn't say that, or anything about violence. All I was talking about was distribution of income.
- oblio 6y agoOk, let me rephrase this, because we now have inequality and some people still live like back in the Stone Age, things are worse now? Keep in mind all people back in the Stone Age lived... like people in the Stone Age :-)