• grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    6 months ago

    Humans have always used violence if someone takes more than they contribute.

    In the grand scheme of things, using violence against those who take more than they contribute (i.e., the upper class) is one of the things we do least often.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      And yet give two kids a cookie and a knife and watch how carefully they divide that cookie. Fairness is a very old instinct.

      • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Humans are for the most part inherently fair and cooperative.

        But sociopaths aren’t, so they think no one else will do anything without the threat of starving to death.

        And the sociopaths have been making the rules since the mid 80s.

        Untold damage done to humanity and civilization just so a handful of old white men can be ridiculously, unspendably rich.

        And we are taught to idealize them.

          • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            6 months ago

            We had a brief progressive period where citizens were protected and supported, I was referring specifically to the reagan-thatcher era.

            Honestly the entire world was going much more progressive then, even the middle east.

            Neoliberalism and oil greed started the current fire we are roasting in. And it started with reagan