Re:The NSA Can't Tell the Difference Between an American and...
by mpyne on Friday June 28, 2013 @10:43AM
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You can't prove a negative, and nor can I. As you say, there are lots of examples of people who tried to setup economic systems outside of capitalism and still failed to keep humans from acting like humans, so I'd wager to say that the totality of evidence has definitely bolstered that particular assertion.
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Re:The NSA Can't Tell the Difference Between an American and...
by flyinRyan on Friday June 28, 2013 @11:49AM
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/12/06/...
This group lived outside of governance for 2 millennia and don't seem to have what you call "human nature". The fact is, our nature is partially "human nature" and partially a product of our environment. No one knows how much those two things contribute so you can't say "X is human nature". We don't really know and it's not easy to test. But capitalism doesn't exist everywhere and doesn't spontaneously pop up everywhere. What is true, however, is that capitalism seems to rely on continuous growth so they eventually encroach on non-capitalists and "convert" them.