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Capitalism takes myths to function. And it’s not just about valuing dirty paper portraits of ugly slavers. 

For capitalism to be seen as the only viable economic model, people have to believe that humans are too selfish to cooperate for the common good. Something which is kinda the core of a social animal’s instincts. 

Or that we could never produce enough essentials to provide a comfortable life for all. You have to believe in bosses, and cops, and that the land belongs to whoever takes it by force. 

You must believe at so many turns that humans are naturally cruel. 

Speaking of capitalist fairytales, there’s another one from a book I was reading the other day that really stuck with me.

Have you ever been talking to someone about how fucked up capitalism is and how there’s no reason 5 people should have the wealth of half the world yadda yadda, and they say something to the effect of

“money and capitalism may not be perfect, but without them we’d resort to bartering for everything like they did before money! You’d have to go find someone who wants to trade some of your chicken eggs for a Playstation 12 and nothing would get done!” ?

Yeah well turns out, said long-ago, faraway galaxy country never actually existed.

There is no (zero) anthropological evidence for such a society to have ever existed (or, more precisely, for that to have been a significant method of exchange within any village or group - bartering between strangers, more commonly between enemies, happened in a handful of societies, but many many others held it in contempt). It is a key ideological myth of capitalism that is blinding us from seeing other ways we can organize the world around us.

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