TheJenHOLY SHIT Y'ALL!
Scientists have found an obsidian tool making "workshop" which dates to 1.2 MILLION YEARS AGO in Ethiopia.
This pushes this type of tool making back 500,000 years.
WOOOOOOOOOOOW
Peter Relph@JenWojcik
Which proves that there were capitalists 1.2 million years ago, because someone had to own the workshop, pay the workers, provide the napping stones & take all the profit.
Which proves that there were capitalists 1.2 million years ago, because someone had to own the workshop, pay the workers, provide the napping stones & take all the profit.
Z̈oé@peterrelph2 @JenWojcik that's not even a logic jump, that's logic teleportation right there
Pieter Kuiper 🇸🇪@uint8_t
I think it is safe to conclude that barter was involved, trade.
Probably on a small and immediate scale, where the stone cutter got food in exchange for food etc.
Capitalism has been exploding since about 500 years ago, after banking was invented. But yes, the seeds are old. And it may have been the inevitable consequence of barter and specialisation.
@peterrelph2 @JenWojcik
I apologise, I was being frivolous., yes it had to be barter. I was just drawing undrawable broad conclusions from tiny bits of evidence in the manner favoured by some archeologists.
Seriously though, I doubt that capitalism grew from barter, but from government issued currency backed by taxation in that currency, the powers that be forcing the populace to produce what they wanted rather than subsisting self sufficiently individually.
resipiscent@pietkuip @uint8_t @peterrelph2 @JenWojcik woeful and tediously boring assumptions that culture = exploitation. Try to keep up, Read Wengrow & Graeber's "Dawn of Everything" has been out quite awhile now.