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You just need to pull yourself up by the bootstraps. (feddit.ch)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 147 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years 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?"

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