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by addandsubtract 1540 days ago
Greed is just the byproduct of uncapped capitalism. Disincentivise the pursuit of constant growth, and the world would be a lot less evil.
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> Disincentivise the pursuit of constant growth, and the world would be a lot less evil.

Not only that, but perhaps the world would be a lot less.

You're going to have to do some work to establish that. It's pretty clear from the historical record and from ancient literature that greed predates capitalism by millennia. You could argue that capitalism makes it worse, but I don't see much evidence of that in history.
> Greed is just the byproduct of uncapped capitalism

No its a byproduct of human beings.

> Disincentivise the pursuit of constant growth, and the world would be a lot less evil.

Or actually it would be much worse.