If you’d ask small children, they’d say that mum and dad should make a lot of money for them :D
Jokes aside, what I meant was that it’s in our nature to be selfish at the expense of others. Of course it’s also in our nature to be cooperative, but this also only because it was actually personally beneficial to us.
Obviously, capitalism is not natural in the sense that that’s what would happen if you’d start over now. Of course it’s in total a completely arbitrary system with very weird and specific rules and mechanics that’re only there by chance and would never exist again if you’d start humanity over in a slightly different situation.
I only said that it’s what evolved out of our nature - i.e. the complete selfishness we inherently have.
Even our altruism is selfish, because cooperation is often better at acquiring resources than acting alone. (And for propagating genetic material, it makes sense to view your children as 50% of “you”, and so on with other relatives.)
And if capitalism isn’t completely selfish, idk what else is.
If you’d ask small children, they’d say that mum and dad should make a lot of money for them :D
Jokes aside, what I meant was that it’s in our nature to be selfish at the expense of others. Of course it’s also in our nature to be cooperative, but this also only because it was actually personally beneficial to us.
Obviously, capitalism is not natural in the sense that that’s what would happen if you’d start over now. Of course it’s in total a completely arbitrary system with very weird and specific rules and mechanics that’re only there by chance and would never exist again if you’d start humanity over in a slightly different situation.
I only said that it’s what evolved out of our nature - i.e. the complete selfishness we inherently have.
Even our altruism is selfish, because cooperation is often better at acquiring resources than acting alone. (And for propagating genetic material, it makes sense to view your children as 50% of “you”, and so on with other relatives.)
And if capitalism isn’t completely selfish, idk what else is.