> "Ultra-capitalism" is just the state of nature without the violence. It's really not. That's the line pushed by Enlightenment thinkers (e.g. Rousseau, Hume)

> "Ultra-capitalism" is just the state of nature without the violence. It's really not. That's the line pushed by Enlightenment thinkers (e.g. Rousseau, Hume) who didn't actually know what they're talking about. A few centuries of anthropology later and we know that a lot of other societies are characterized by mutual aid. One randomly chosen example: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2801707 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2801707