• nexguy@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    If humans weren’t greedy dicks then capitalism or any other form of government would work perfectly. You can’t force humans to not be greedy dicks. No matter what system is being instituted it is susceptible to greedy dicks.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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      11 minutes ago

      Your generalization is false

      The majority of humanity are not greedy or obsessed with profit

      The problem is that the few ridiculously greedy sociopaths that do arise per-capita are just so FUCKDAMN good at amassing power and wealth that we assume it’s the natural lot of all people

      So we just test and dispose of sociopaths at birth, problem solved. We already have the tests for it.

      Don’t look at me like that

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      2 hours ago

      Yes we can, via laws. You have no clue about what unrestricted greed does to people especially, on the recieving end

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        4 hours ago

        Which ones? Which ones don’t damage their land or steal children from enemies or rape or steal? Please don’t try to say any indigenous tribes because they are all guilty of one or more these.

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          4 hours ago

          Any indigenous tribe. But seriously it was not long ago that no professional fishermen anywhere would ever overfish.

          • Ridgetop18@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            Only because they weren’t capable of it lmao.

            There’s at least some evidence supporting human driven extinctions as far back as some of the earliest ‘modern’ (ie Homo sapien) hominid populations.