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Re:Who died and left the US $7B? by logifail on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @04:09PM (#41792096)
> Being able to accumulate capital, at least without having to resort to extreme violence is also about as "unnatural" as it gets..

(This is a genuine clarifying question, because I'm struggling here) are you suggesting that saving is somehow unnatural?

Re:Who died and left the US $7B? by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @04:24PM (#41792239)
I believe that the claim is this: In the long scope of history, being able to accumulate money without having to be strong enough to defend it is really rare.
Re:Who died and left the US $7B? by Wytwwww on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @04:39PM (#41792378)
> that saving is somehow unnatural

Depends on how you define saving. Hoarding perishable goods is of course a pretty natural behaviour but that only scales so much. Investment (i.e. owning more land or other productive assets than you can utilize directly yourself) seems pretty as opposed to communal ownership seems pretty "unnatural".

Not that I'm somehow implying that "natural" (whatever that really means, since using violence and coercion certainly seems like natural human behaviour) is somehow always superior to the opposite.