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by jasonzemos 1113 days ago
Doing nothing your entire life but killing grazing animals and wearing their fur on your shoulders and teeth around your neck is just man a few thousand years removed.
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We still do that now and even worse. We used to do it for pure survival and need. Now we do it for pleasure more than anything else.
Yes, we're much worse towards animals, and really the entire ecosystem, then we were even 100 years ago. Pretty wild.
An effect of the establishment and growth of communism, subsequently its counterpart emergence of capitalism, and the growing culture of excess materialism ... called wealth.
I think you read that history book backwards.
Ok? My research on this is capitalism was never coined until Marxism was coined. Marxism is the predecessor to communism. Communism was taken up during the Bolshevik revolution. Then it was demonized.
Capitalism was happening before Marx described it as such.

And ‘wealth’ predates capitalism and mercantilism.

+ a lot of pollution