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Capitalists would argue that between capitalism and socialism, capitalism is the one that better accounts for greed, as it generally has laws to con strain it but otherwise uses it to generate all the production that's the hallmark of modern society, division of labor, economy of scale, technological advancement, etc. Socialism doesn't really deal with greed, it just sort of wishes it away. That's why so many societies that have started down the socialist path have become at best poor and at worst authoritarian murder factories like the Soviet Union, Maoist China, Chavist Venezuela, the Khmer Rouge's Cambodia, etc.

Malthus and Erlich, right wingers?

I don't see many right wing people on this list. Thoughts?

I think it sort of depends on what time period we're talking about. Jericho and other walled cities came about after a certain point. By then, there certainly were societies that lived off raiding the less nomadic agrarian societies, not very peaceful or egalitarian.

All the good ones, anyway. Lol.

Too mean?

I don't think anyone means literally one person did all the work when they say "self made." Also, you as an individual pay for most of the things you get from the rest of society. You're still earning it, more or less.

Correct, the vast majority of people don't care.

Got a link to a good project of that type? I've been thinking about this recently.

Yes, that's what I meant. Lol. Thanks for correcting

Thanks for the info!

Is it possible that alternatives are not widely used because most people don't want to use alternatives in the first place?

My login screen has my 2 monitors flipped and I can't figure out how to fix it. Otherwise, I like it.

There are places that are worse, for sure, and I'm sorry to hear that. But the average is better. Just like the existence of really hot days does not disprove climate change, really terrible events in certain places do not disprove the overall trend of things getting better.