You gotta stop that. I’ve started microplastic maxing and it’s been great. I feel like I just think about stuff less.

I’m thinking about adding in some macro plastics

The initial claim that started this all is that there is not a better system and some rather bold claims about human nature.

My claim is that raiding other humans and taking their things was common

This is shifting the goal posts. The statement I initially made was that humans for the majority of history were egalitarian and less violent. This is still true. This statement you provided is true to a specific portion of human history that does not make up the majority.

If the argument is now that a society creating excess leads to violence and raiding we also have evidence of cultures that have not done that.

There’s also an issue with the argument that hunter gatherer societies had nothing of value to take. That idea relies heavily on our modern ideas on what is worth trying to take. For example sometimes people would travel, or possibly trade, with quarry sites hundreds of kilometers away. Having quality stone means being able to feed yourself and your group. Sounds quite valuable, but we don’t see violence increase as you move away from these sites. The same can be said for virtually every limited resource in the distant past.

Yeah I’m only an archaeologist.

I’d like to explain what you’re missing in detail, but truthfully it would take a course in it of itself. I’ll try to be concise.

Simply put all evidence that we have points to humans living relatively egalitarian and peacefully for the majority of our history. We additionally have early evidence of trade.

Now there is, with all things, nuance. For the past 10,000 or so years evidence points to humans being very violent to one another and we have seen an increase in social stratification. However, in the modern era violence is on a downward trend relative to the total human population. Social stratification is obviously not.

Skeletal evidence is our best, but we also have evidence in the form of more traditional artifacts.

To be clear I’m not saying we can tell you every human in a hunter gatherer group carried the same social status or that people never killed each other. Obviously not, but what I can tell you is that every member of the group had access to the same nutrition and that evidence of violent skeletal trauma is significantly less prevalent than after the advent of agriculture. There is also significant evidence of trade prior to evidence of mass warfare.

Your understanding of human history is lacking depth and inaccurate

Well considering for the majority of humanity’s existence we existed in largely egalitarian societies I think it’s up to you to prove this is working.

I’m not going to downplay modern medicine and our technological advancements. Capitalism had a role to play in that is just a shame kids in the 3rd world had to starve or die in mines for it to happen. I think we could’ve come up with a better system than that.

In short, people tend to be motivated by profit

Only in a society that commodifies your existence and success based on the wealth you generate/hold

Unless we’re changing the definition of profit to status

So if they re-circumcised their penis then it’s back to autism?