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it only took ~12 000 years to "naturally gravitate to capitalism"
I dunno man, ever since someone invented money, there always were rich and poor people, and class division
Wrong again. The earliest date possible you could put on the emergence of class societies, would be ~12k years ago with the agricultural revolution. Modern humans emerged about 300k years ago, and 2 million years if you want to consider other close relatives.
So most charitably, class societies have only existed for 4% of human history, or 0.6%
Okay, I said "when money was invented" not "when humanity emerged" mr WRONG AGAIN 🙄 Learn to read if you want to be bitchy on the Internet
Capitalism arose well after money, it's a specific mode of production.
Yeah, because the previous prelevant system, feudalism, was so fair and not at all exploitative of the poor by the rich
Feudalism was also exploitative, but in a different manner and character as the class character was different. I don't see what your point is, here.
using money does not mean it's capitalism
but i do think that capitalism is better than feudalism and most, if not all that came before
but i also think that we need to move further, or we're getting screwed