Forgive me for bringing my favorite obsession into this, but I’m always reminded of Ancient Roman discourses on nature.
Romans sometimes noted that such behaviors as ‘speech’ and ‘wearing clothes’ were unnatural. Rather than a criticism of these behaviors, it was only a casual observation - that which is natural and that which humans find useful are not always one and the same.
Even if greed was human nature, to the exclusion of altruism, that would still not make it the best course of action to enable. Something many capitalist apologists seem to ‘forget’.
But any system that includes humans must account for greed and personal ambition. What is the best course of action in the long term is not always the best course of action in the short term, and people tend to be short term minded.
Forgive me for bringing my favorite obsession into this, but I’m always reminded of Ancient Roman discourses on nature.
Romans sometimes noted that such behaviors as ‘speech’ and ‘wearing clothes’ were unnatural. Rather than a criticism of these behaviors, it was only a casual observation - that which is natural and that which humans find useful are not always one and the same.
Even if greed was human nature, to the exclusion of altruism, that would still not make it the best course of action to enable. Something many capitalist apologists seem to ‘forget’.
But any system that includes humans must account for greed and personal ambition. What is the best course of action in the long term is not always the best course of action in the short term, and people tend to be short term minded.