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[โ€“] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Many societies also develop a system of redistribution or debt forgiveness. It's known that too much debt accumulation in too few hands cause increasingly bigger issues or that circumstances change. But there are always those that need to learn the lesson again.

[โ€“] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Not many societies developed a system of redistribution. We live in one of the extremely few that have, and it took a lot of smart people a lot of time (and infighting) to get into something that works.

We just need to apply it.