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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by rohit89 on Thursday March 30, 2017 @12:59PM (#13997035)
Well, the natural law here is that we need access to resources to do anything. And money is basically a proxy for it. Until we solve the resource problem, I think other economic systems would eventually run into trouble as well. Its human nature to try to game the system.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by laughingman2 on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:12AM (#14001507)
> Its human nature to try to game the system

Or is the system is designed to give wrong incentives?

I don't think we have enough evidence for what you take as "human nature". On the contrary the anthropological studies in Debt: The First 5000 Years Book by David Graeber, we have evidence of many primitive societies behaving more communal fashion.The resources though scarce is shared with the commune.

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