• @foggy@lemmy.world
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    1471 year ago

    This just in: humans do not enjoy any degree of enslavement.

    Check back next year to see if we’ve managed to break the spirit of the human race.

    • @BigNote@lemm.ee
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      141 year ago

      This is true. It’s because we evolved over many hundreds of thousands of years as egalitarian hunter-gatherers and only relatively recently invented things like agriculture, big stratified societies, the bulk accumulation of wealth and property and work.

      • @SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee
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        151 year ago

        This reminds me of a recent meme pushing back against the “greed is human nature” narrative. Was something like:

        “If you see a bear riding a bicycle at the circus, do you assume it is the nature of bears to ride bicycles?”