[bmitc]

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.

[roflyear]

Yes, we're much worse towards animals, and really the entire ecosystem, then we were even 100 years ago. Pretty wild.

[nashashmi]

An effect of the establishment and growth of communism, subsequently its counterpart emergence of capitalism, and the growing culture of excess materialism ... called wealth.

[jameshart]

I think you read that history book backwards.

[nashashmi]

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.

[jameshart]

Capitalism was happening before Marx described it as such.

And ‘wealth’ predates capitalism and mercantilism.

[nashashmi]

The term capitalism was never coined or used before Marxism. You could find ideals and concepts that were adopted by the capitalist movement such as laissez-faire. But these were independent concepts separately developed.

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+ a lot of pollution