To me that's moving the goal posts. There are plenty of nomadic and tribal societies out there that function the same way they have for thousands of years. Cer

To me that's moving the goal posts. There are plenty of nomadic and tribal societies out there that function the same way they have for thousands of years. Certainly our technologically advanced civilizations as they exist today are founded on capitalism, but I am not sure that is required, it has just become such an ingrained concept that "no one would ever do these unsavory tasks if we didn't threaten them with starvation and death" that we have difficulty imagining any other possibility.