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In reply to the discussion: Your view of the root cause of much of the general "mess" we are in [View all]Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)For the first time it became possible for some people to accumulate more food than they needed This resulted in stockpiling, which was leveraged by those in control of the stockpiles to exert the power of their wealth over others.
Agriculture made systematic greed possible. Everything else descends from that. Right on the heels of agriculture came governments, soldiers, wars to amass more agricultural lands to grow more crops to feed more soldiers and non-productive "elite". After that came greed on the part of the non-elite, which was the foundation of capitalism, or the power of tradesmen and merchants to amass wealth from the labor of the less greedy.
Ever since that point, natural selection, in the form of the market, has favored the most greedy, which includes those greedy for wealth, and those greedy for power.
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