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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 53 points 2 years ago (35 children)

OK, I'll bite: What systems reward kindness?

[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 26 points 2 years ago (7 children)

For one, hunter-gatherer tribes before the rise of civilisation were most certainly built on kindness and cooperation

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The Agrarian Revolution really was where humanity started going downhill.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 4 points 2 years ago

This is true, but agriculture is a trap in the sense that once we adopted it, there was no turning back.

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