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So long as we're making sweeping claims without any attempt at supporting them, you're wrong, this is all downstream from the Protestant Reformation.

AndrewKemendo 3y ago
Capitalism (an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit) was invented prior to written history so the reformation only exists in the context of private property being a core assumption of society. That assumption is NEW in the history of humanity, the concept of "property" has only existed for about 50,000 years The protestant reformation then was an attempt to wrest property away from the catholic organization and distribute it. The goal being to eliminate the primary economic organization and "democratize" it. The concept of hoarding property flowed from scarcity anxieties that are only socially maintained and hoarding property is the root issue You can read my proof here: https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html
- chasd00 3y ago
  anti-capitalism ideas, so great they're mandatory and a wall built around you so you can't flee to somewhere else - everywhere it's been tried
  - AndrewKemendo 3y ago
    I’m sorry that you’re ignorant of every single indigenous culture but that’s really not my problem No matter, you’ll simply make the following argument: that might makes right because those indigenous cultures couldn’t stand up to the genocidal domination tactics of property based thought right?
    - HideousKojima 3y ago
      I know this may come as a shock, so you may want to sit down for this one: those indigenous tribes and cultures were genociding each other for millennia before Adam Smith ever wrote The Wealth of Nations.
      - AndrewKemendo 3y ago
        Do you realize you responded precisely in the way I described a response to this would be? This is how perfectly predictable this argument is.
        HideousKojima 3y ago
        And yet predictable != inaccurate If I predict ahead of time that my plans to install a puppet government in Machuria and invade China are going to be compared unfavorably to Japan's actions in WW2, that doesn't somehow magically make the comparison inaccurate just because I predicted it.

AndrewKemendo 3y ago

Capitalism (an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit) was invented prior to written history so the reformation only exists in the context of private property being a core assumption of society. That assumption is NEW in the history of humanity, the concept of "property" has only existed for about 50,000 years The protestant reformation then was an attempt to wrest property away from the catholic organization and distribute it. The goal being to eliminate the primary economic organization and "democratize" it. The concept of hoarding property flowed from scarcity anxieties that are only socially maintained and hoarding property is the root issue You can read my proof here: https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html

chasd00 3y ago
anti-capitalism ideas, so great they're mandatory and a wall built around you so you can't flee to somewhere else - everywhere it's been tried
- AndrewKemendo 3y ago
  I’m sorry that you’re ignorant of every single indigenous culture but that’s really not my problem No matter, you’ll simply make the following argument: that might makes right because those indigenous cultures couldn’t stand up to the genocidal domination tactics of property based thought right?
  - HideousKojima 3y ago
    I know this may come as a shock, so you may want to sit down for this one: those indigenous tribes and cultures were genociding each other for millennia before Adam Smith ever wrote The Wealth of Nations.
    - AndrewKemendo 3y ago
      Do you realize you responded precisely in the way I described a response to this would be? This is how perfectly predictable this argument is.
      - HideousKojima 3y ago
        And yet predictable != inaccurate If I predict ahead of time that my plans to install a puppet government in Machuria and invade China are going to be compared unfavorably to Japan's actions in WW2, that doesn't somehow magically make the comparison inaccurate just because I predicted it.