How capitalism came to be..

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Continuing to develop a helpful narrative. It is important to understand the origins of capitalism because capitalism, the system where a few own most of everything, and the rest are at risk, led to the system that we are in which, among other things creates climate destruction., First, be clear that. Early empires were cattle-focused and capitalism, with a few steps, emerged from cattle breeding: a band (smaller than a tribe) has a small herd, and calf birth follows, expanding the size of the herd. who owns that new wealth? Does it belong to the band or to an individual? From what we know, it remained in flux for thousands of years, But with increased population cultural norms. different for differing tribes, crept in. It probably begins with some weak sense of “"these are mine those are yours. In the early period there was plenty of grass to feed all the cattle, but as the herd increased grass began to be a problem The sense of the herd being divided by weak ownership shifts from the cattle to the land which is divided. This grass is mine and that grass is yours. You can feel the tensions and complexities emerging. Evolving norms meant that the cattle world was becoming culture-rich. There is not much more to capitalism than drawing out the implications in contracts, law, and regulations. Bamking being a tool for that and making the narrative messier.

Most importantly, differences in wealth (cattle) never translated into the ability to

give orders, or to demand formal obeisance. ”

The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber

Less than 20 years before, northern men had fought a war to defend a society based on free labor and had, they thought, put in place a government that would support the ability of all hardworking men to rise to prosperity. But for all that the war had seemed to be about defending men against the rise of an oligarchy that intended to reduce all men to a life of either enslavement or wage labor, the war and its aftermath had pushed workers’ rights backward.   

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