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For one, hunter-gatherer tribes before the rise of civilisation were most certainly built on kindness and cooperation
The Agrarian Revolution really was where humanity started going downhill.
This is true, but agriculture is a trap in the sense that once we adopted it, there was no turning back.
Remind me again of how farming ruined people
The first written evidence of slavery in the ancient world comes from ancient Mesopotamia. However, slavery was in practice much longer than that. Slavery most likely began when the first cities needed labor to keep food production up to feed growing populations.
So you propose an anarchy? I dont think that would go well.
And your point is?
Simply trotting that out as a truth tells us nothing about how you propose to build a modern system that respects how we've evolved as a species.
I'm just answering the question. They ask what system rewards kindness, I say a hunter-gatherer one does. I'm not implying that going back to the stone age is realistic by any means.