• Crankenstein@lemmy.world
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    They have for much longer and more consistently shared the fruits of those trees when they aren’t being manipulated by social forces that condition them to compete with each other for readily available resources.

    Humans are a communal species by nature. We only need to encourage that nature instead of continuing to allow a small subsection of the population to abuse it.

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      Humans are a communal species by nature.

      Humans are both communal and competitive by nature. That makes things much more complicated.

      Regardles, David Graeber was a wonderfully insightful author and lecturer.