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What if it’s both?
I mean it’s just not human nature, it was literally invented around the 14th century.
Capitalism?
We have evidence of travelling merchants and specialized craftsmen going back to thousands of years BC — just look at Otzi and Bronze Age currency.
So I’m confused what you mean was invented in the 14th century
Capitalism is not synonymous with economics, commerce, or trade.
Capitalism is but a singular, specific economic system. Not the only economic system.
Merchants selling things isn’t capitalism on it’s own. Trading and currency aren’t capitalism either.
Commodity production: production for exchange on a market; to maximize exchange-value instead of use-value.
This is definitely one of my biggest criticisms of our economic system.
Just read the Wikipedia on capitalism for a brief intro. Just trade or money or business isn’t capitalism. Capitalism is a specific form of social organization that was actually impossible before the 1300s.
Man, one of my biggest dreams is that people actually learn what capitalism really is. It’s an -ism that focuses on capital. Socialism is an -ism that focuses on society. Capitalism sucks rocks because its focus means that money has the priority, and it really doesn’t even matter where it came from. Exploited a bunch of people and used legal loopholes the owner class essentially paid for to do it? Yea, that’s totally fine in capitalism because your grotesque bank account is more important than the lives of the people you hurt.
