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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This just in: humans do not enjoy any degree of enslavement.

Check back next year to see if we've managed to break the spirit of the human race.

[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 21 points 1 year ago

In other news, water has been confirmed to be wet.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is true. It's because we evolved over many hundreds of thousands of years as egalitarian hunter-gatherers and only relatively recently invented things like agriculture, big stratified societies, the bulk accumulation of wealth and property and work.

[–] SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of a recent meme pushing back against the "greed is human nature" narrative. Was something like:

"If you see a bear riding a bicycle at the circus, do you assume it is the nature of bears to ride bicycles?"