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>In fact, for most of humanity, we were pretty damn egalitarian. Capitalism changed things, and the problem is getting rapidly worse - precisely because of bill

>In fact, for most of humanity, we were pretty damn egalitarian. Capitalism changed things, and the problem is getting rapidly worse - precisely because of billionaires [0]. No, it's scale that changed things. Larger pre-capitalistic societies (which are still relatively recent as far as the history of the species goes) were even less egalitarian. It's only smaller groups that were less structured where you find much less inequality, the problem is they lose to more organised, larger, and materially wealthier groups.

mandmandam 2y ago
> it's scale that changed things. Ok, I mean agriculture allowed for great inequality and large cities... Still, capitalism changed things even more. Scale isn't the reason why inequality is the highest it's ever been right now; it's because billionaire oligarchs are making all the decisions, and are selling the planet's future for a little bit more. > Larger pre-capitalistic societies (which are still relatively recent as far as the history of the species goes) were even less egalitarian. I don't think scale is the defining issue there, but if you can bring a paper or something I'd be happy to look at it. Also, keep in mind that despite all our advancements inequality is the highest it has ever been (and global destruction has never been closer).