• Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
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    6 days ago

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  • Cattail@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Then: what’s the reason to innovate without capitalism?

    Me: first of many is wanting to make the lives of the people you live better

  • rem26_art@fedia.io
    3·
    6 days ago

    the only reason we crawled out of the ocean and onto land was because we had to go to work or else our boss would get mad

  • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Most hunter gatherers don’t innovate or try anything new. Their lives are basically the same as their mothers and fathers.

    It was agriculture, not capitalism, that started our rapid transformation. We only started agriculture after hundreds of thousands of years.

  • wpb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    To see people behaving greedily under capitalism and conclude greed is human nature is the same as to see people drowning in the ocean and conclude drowning is human nature.

  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Which came first? Inventions or Intellectual Property laws? You obviously can’t have the one without the other.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Almost definitely not.

      Unless they invented it to increase their own already considerable wealth, of course, in which case they would have gotten their thirty million pieces of silver for dooming most of humanity.

      • CannonFodder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Ok, haha. I said ‘no offense’ so…
        I actually meant to write more but I got a call.
        It’s just that while there’s plenty wrong with capitalism, this post doesn’t really hit the mark. In the context of a Neanderthal, most innovation would require very little investment of resources, and even larger projects which might require community involvement would be organized through examples, trust and like mindedness, or tribal dominance. Only once much larger and complex innovative projects needing regulated investment of some sort are considered, does capitalism even make sense. And then it makes sense for the same reasons that early capitalism can contribute a lot to growth and wellbeing.