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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
&gt; Marx is brilliant, but human nature is stronger.

It is my firm believe that we have no clue what baseline human nature is.

Human behavior is extremely adaptive and forged by the norms and incentives of society as well as the material circumstances - whether ppl live in abundance or poverty.

Human nature enables cooperation as well as competition and currently we (as a society) strongly incentivise egoism and competition, raise children in that spirit and filter leadership by those qualities.

Even the word "dog-eat-dog society" suggests there could be a different kind. 

In a society theoretically living in abundance of all essentials (food, housing,...) I think its totally plausible to build incentives for cooperation and follow some kind of Montessori concept of schooling children in the spirit of cooperation.

Now you can still argue with game theory and doves vs hawks , but I think this "capitalism is human nature" notion is capitalist propaganda IMO
gpt
Well said. I don’t mean to minimize the complexities of human nature. Especially in the greater realities of self awareness, language, civilization, culture, and the like. But I feel there is a clear trajectory to society so far and that large communal societies don’t really work. At least not voluntarily. On a smaller scale yes.  Anarchism is great for a group of 50 with no external threats. 

I think human nature is pretty clearly favored towards a hierarchical society. However sad that seems.