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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Yeah. When you’re breaking your back out in the fields all year and you’ve just barely managed to fill your granary with enough food for the winter, you’re not going to tolerate a band of marauders coming through and stealing all the food. Property was a matter of life and death for the entire village.

We’re all descended from these agrarian cultures (except for some of the indigenous folks who hail from hunter gatherer communities). These strong property rights are deeply rooted in our cultures.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Yep, couldn't agree more really, the ways we're built to think were useful and basically essential for all of human history.

    But now things are very (eh, somewhat) different and we're doing a shit job of updating our understanding of "how to be people". Mostly (by my measure) due to the way our technology changes much much faster than human-scale "how to be" wisdom.

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