this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
228 points (90.4% liked)

Economics

1850 readers
324 users here now

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
Rumblestiltskin@lemmy.ml
228
We live in the capitalocene (feddit.uk)
submitted 1 day ago by robinoberg@feddit.uk to c/economics@lemmy.ml
27 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 6 points 7 hours ago

Humans invented and seem to naturally gravitate to capitalism

Do we naturally gravitate towards capitalism? I'd say we gravitate towards communism on family to tribal scales. Seems like capitalism or its precursor takes hold after one group conquers another and exploitation begins.