So you're saying he forgot to account for the human nature of judging things you haven't seen/read/experienced?

and won't read. lol

(However I did give them hard plastic clubs shaped in the form of shovels)

you armed them with knives in a gun fight?!

Oh, you are being sarcastic? Wouldn't have guessed

In some ancient text I read it talks about how the ancient Greeks had stopped wearing swords all the time for protection, but there were still some primitive areas where they did. Civilization reduces the necessity and the rate of return on individual violence it would seem.

Yeah of course, this meme is meant to be making fun of the idea that "human nature" (whatever that may be lol) in any way disproves communist or anticapitalist theory

But have humans have never had a non-hierarchical large scaled society?

And slavery isn't capitalism? Or is that cooperative because the slaveholder says "I have a knife and will kill you" and the slave says "I don't want to die" so it's mutual collaboration where the slave doesn't die but also is a slave?

Greed isn't inescapably "human nature", but results from it under some basic conditions. The nature of enjoyment and suffering means the pursuit of enjoyment and avoidance of suffering as a biological imperative. Desperation, lack of cultural/learned empathy, cultural normalization of disparity, etc., can quickly allow unchecked greed. The same thing, with different conditions, can be said for... not sure there's a single word for it, but behavior motivated by empathy promoting equality and sharing and so on. The conditions actually kind of close to being the inverse of those for greed - some combination of not having desperation, having cultural/learned empathy, cultural normalization of economic equality, etc. Both types of thinking are just basically pro-social or anti-social thought with regard to material/economic gain, depending on what influences individual thinking.

Humans were constrained by their material conditions. Now that those material conditions have changed, their behaviors have changed to match. This is not a fixed state of affairs. Humans continue to transition between stages just like every other living being.

Greed is as much a part of modern human nature as fear and love. And it is the product of a social condition that rewards growth, punishes disobedience, and requires a larger community to reproduce itself. It is a consequence of social conditioning executed iteratively from parent to child. And a consequence of statistical survival and prosperity played out over populations.

What defines human action is not the basic libidinal impulse, but the interplay between people and their environments over lifetimes and generations. That's not socialism or capitalism at its root. Socialism and capitalism are simply fruits grown from the post-industrial branches of the tree of human history.

Mesopotamians tracked agricultural debt on clay tablets in 3000 BC

I mean at the time the concept of psychology was measuring skull ridges to "prove" racial superiority so yeah, he would think that. Because he was completely ignorant of the concept of studying human psychology

It's just rejecting your responsibility in the way you behave. "It's not me, it's the nature"

One has to wonder how capitalism arose, if the traits which gave rise to it aren’t part of human nature.

Killing people who don't worship the same Gods as you, taking slaves from the neighboring city state, and having a harem of sex slaves "wives" are all "human nature" that have all been done since before we had the technology to record them all the way up to today. Should those be tolerated in modern society too? Hell no.

Well that's WHERE youre wrong buddy. Wolf pits are the Last GREAT thang ABOUT this cuntry and I won't HAVE no liburels Taking them!

Edit: capitalized more words.

Common refrain from capitalism fans is that communism can never work because humans are inherently selfish/greedy as proven by their observation that humans are selfish and greedy in the system that rewards selfishness and greed.