It’s especially funny since by most reasonable definitions of capitalism, it’s newer than Shakespeare.

Guess we weren’t in touch with our inner human before then, according to capitalist simps.

As I tell my students jokingly, inside you there are two primates: a chimp and a bonobo.

One or two students laugh because she remembered chimps are bloodthirsty assholes and bonobos just want to fuck. Their both our evolutionary cousins, though.

At the end of the day, both are sides of human nature but the strongest side seems to be cooperative, not competitive, since tribe survival is so important (including with other tribes). Greed might be “fit” occasionally but typically isn’t worth the risk of alienating the tribe. A lone human is typically a dead human.

Until capitalism, anyway.

Capitalism isn’t merely rational self-interest. Capitalism is legal structures that allow ownership to be separated from both the process of doing the work and the accountability for the results.

Wats all this: