Trade existed. Trade over privately owned goods. Also known as capitalism. Capitalism is a broad term and people in this thread are zoning in on modern day liberal interpretation of capitalism because they can’t wait to get their late stage capitalism verbiage in. Please, everyone take a step back or open a history book.
Commerce is not the same thing as capitalism, those words are not synonyms. Take a step back and open a dictionary.
Pedantic definitions aside. The idea that capitalism is human nature and that human society and more broadly humans as a species are inherently capitalist is completely made up and ancient couns existing doesnt prove it. Id recommend looking up articles regarding “gift culture’” and “barter culture”
As for opening a history book: i did my undergrad in European history, and have a masters in Archeology. So while im not the definitive expert on the history of commerce and capitalism by any means, I have definitely opened up a couple history books.
Haha sort of. People have a very superficial understanding of topics but a lot of confidence and anger. I don’t know why I even bother with these forums/communities. My hope is lurkers don’t feel alienated here because they aren’t left of Bernie enough. The older I get, the more I notice people talk with a lot of confidence about stuff they have no idea about.
On reddit, no matter how ridculous claim someone makes, you could always sort by controversial and there’s usually someone calling them out on their bullshit. I feel like that is not the case here, so I almost feel like it’s my duty to be the voice of reason. I never claim to be an expert because I basically never am, but atleast I know how much I don’t know and whenever I see someone making absolutely idiotic claims I just have to step in. Hopefully atleast few people scroll thru the thread looking for the alternative point of view.
I’m not naive enough to think I’m always right but atleast I try to be honest. I also don’t think the people here are stupid either, just they way they think is. Or rather don’t think.
Trade existed. Trade over privately owned goods. Also known as capitalism. Capitalism is a broad term and people in this thread are zoning in on modern day liberal interpretation of capitalism because they can’t wait to get their late stage capitalism verbiage in. Please, everyone take a step back or open a history book.
Commerce is not the same thing as capitalism, those words are not synonyms. Take a step back and open a dictionary. Pedantic definitions aside. The idea that capitalism is human nature and that human society and more broadly humans as a species are inherently capitalist is completely made up and ancient couns existing doesnt prove it. Id recommend looking up articles regarding “gift culture’” and “barter culture”
As for opening a history book: i did my undergrad in European history, and have a masters in Archeology. So while im not the definitive expert on the history of commerce and capitalism by any means, I have definitely opened up a couple history books.
You’re attributing a lot of things to my statement that I did NOT say and I don’t know why you do this. Why do you do it?
It brings me hope when I see atleast one other person trying to make sense of things. Fun place for debate, isn’t it?
Haha sort of. People have a very superficial understanding of topics but a lot of confidence and anger. I don’t know why I even bother with these forums/communities. My hope is lurkers don’t feel alienated here because they aren’t left of Bernie enough. The older I get, the more I notice people talk with a lot of confidence about stuff they have no idea about.
On reddit, no matter how ridculous claim someone makes, you could always sort by controversial and there’s usually someone calling them out on their bullshit. I feel like that is not the case here, so I almost feel like it’s my duty to be the voice of reason. I never claim to be an expert because I basically never am, but atleast I know how much I don’t know and whenever I see someone making absolutely idiotic claims I just have to step in. Hopefully atleast few people scroll thru the thread looking for the alternative point of view.
I’m not naive enough to think I’m always right but atleast I try to be honest. I also don’t think the people here are stupid either, just they way they think is. Or rather don’t think.
What ever would we do without you? 🙄
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