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Old 10-26-2009, 12:35 AM   #160
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Originally Posted by the-nihilist View Post
Pretty much, yeah. Our only salvation is an advanced, highly pragmatic AI or a hive mind (collective consciousness). History has shown us that humans are unfit to govern ourselves.
If it's true that humans are naturally greedy, individualistic, and exploitative, then wouldn't capitalism be a system born out of those qualities? Because you seem to imply the opposite: that capitalism was a perfect idea that got fucked up by human nature.

Either way, I don't understand where everyone's negative view of human nature came from.
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