You seem to be interpreting "most of humanity" as "most of recorded history", resulting in error. Recorded history is a tiny fraction of "most of humanity". Th

You seem to be interpreting "most of humanity" as "most of recorded history", resulting in error. Recorded history is a tiny fraction of "most of humanity". There's no shortage of scientific research on this topic, and it's in broad agreement that for most of our history we lived relatively egalitarian lives compared to the modern era. > capitalism, the source of all of our problems Right now? Pretty much. It's literally the source of most of our biggest problems: Climate catastrophe, AI doom, mass pollution, the anthropocene extinction, historic wealth inequality (!), massive political corruption (!), resource depletion, media manipulation, etc etc. In other words, it changed things. > By all means we were all living happy, egalitarian existences in the past. Certainly no recorded histories of monarchs or warlords, no records of inequity. Again, there's plenty of research on this, if you care to look at the original argument and not your strawman version. Btw, during all the monarchs and warlords, was wealth inequality ever as high as right now? (Spoiler alert: it was not). Also, capitalism didn't originate "in the early 19th century". You might be thinking of the industrial revolution, which is when it globally coalesced. > are you a complete idiot? Often. Glad we agree on the need to rein in our oligarchs though, that's the main thing. Try to be a little more polite; we don't talk like that here.