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I certainly dislike people who have neat little boxes to put other people in. I know it's a human thing, still think it's detrimental.
It's not a human thing. Humans are natural empathizers. It's a capitalism "you're your job and your khakis" thing.
Theres some tendency towards tribalism that is probably a human thing though right? Wasn't that the main social unit for humans through prehistory?
Yes. Humans definitely aren't altruistic or empathetic, as a whole.
Yeah communism famously doesn't allow for punishing people for intrinsic traits
Empathy is a learned behaviour.
Lol, humans are inherently tribalistic.
Capitalism is actually normal human behavior. There's a reason it has to be regulated.
Capitalism really couldn't happen to this degree until industrialism became a thing.
I mean, all you have to do is look at all of recorded human history to see that we're not an altruistic or compassionate species. A person might be altruistic or compassionate, but people aren't. If people were, communism would actually work.
Regardless, tribalism isn't a good thing because you end up with 'that persons skin color is different from mine and that's bad.'
Communism works for small communities, like 2-300 people (which incidentally is the size of the tribes we developed to be part of).
And while altruistim and compassion have existed, they're by no means traits in the majority of humans. Humans are selfish, greedy animals. Some of us might realize this and work to be better, but that means we're fighting our natural tendencies.