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I can't imagine being happy in a society where 90% of the population is too damn lazy to improve their own lives, and where such improvements are even frowned upon
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Wait, so you believe in "Arbeit macht frei" ? You think people need to be put to work ?
The oil we eat: Following the food chain back to Iraq?By Richard Manning (Harper's Magazine)
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Why humans might have traded this approach for the complexities of agriculture is an interesting and long-debated question, especially because the skeletal evidence clearly indicates that early farmers were more poorly nourished, more disease-ridden and deformed, than their hunter-gatherer contemporaries. Farming did not improve most lives. The evidence that best points to the answer, I think, lies in the difference between early agricultural villages and their pre-agricultural counterparts—the presence not just of grain but of granaries and, more tellingly, of just a few houses significantly larger and more ornate than all the others attached to those granaries. Agriculture was not so much about food as it was about the accumulation of wealth. It benefited some humans, and those people have been in charge ever since.
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This is what capitalism brings to the world - slavery,Columbus asked for gold, look what happened when they did not bring him gold :
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As Columbus wrote of the Arawak (before murdering and enslaving them),
"They are so ingenuous and free with all they have, that no one would believe it who has not seen it... Of anything they possess, if it be asked of them, they never say no; on the contrary, they invite you to share it and show as much love as if their hearts went with it..."
Was an intense acculturation process applied to Arawak children in order to override their inherently greedy, selfish natures and impose the desire to share?
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http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/text.php
Look at Haiti, people eat dirt there. And I don't even want to talk about "Democratic" and "Free". You have no idea what freedom is. And consider yourself lucky if you like your job, for 80% others is just a matter of survival.
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One day there will be so many houses, that people will be bored and will go live in tents. "Why are you living in tents ? Are there not enough houses ?" "Yes there are, but we play this Economy game"