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Dunno if I'd say that about humanity as a whole, though there are certainly specific systems and people who probably were made in Satan's image. Communism and Nazism for one thing, as well as Pol Pot and Uday Hussein for another. (Hitler, genocidal madman that he was, didn't purge people...

I know, and I find human stupidity and bullheadedness every bit as lamentable as you do. Unfortunately, I doubt there’ll be much of anything left for future traditionalists to inherit once the nukes start firing. Human nature remains a rock-solid constant, for sure... so we should be very wary...

Sure, for now. But once things get really dicey for the Western political and business elite? Well, whatever tame veneer corporate globalism has now will be cast off then, “Great Reset” and all. Personally, I don’t take issue with a genuine free market where people voluntarily trade and...

His Punic counterpart offering more or less the same response goes without saying, I'm guessing. In any case, now I'm interested in what more "commercially inclined" societies from back in the day would make of modern economics, especially given how tech/computing advances, paired with centuries...

That, and the fact there've been outright mercantile societies long before capitalism as we think of it became a thing. Again, I point to Phoenicia, Carthage, and the Italian merchant republics here, which went above and beyond the historical norm of people producing and trading things with one...

Probably, though even if capitalism as we think of it stops existing, history has proven you don't need an ideological fixation with it for private trade and commerce to survive and thrive. (See Phoenicia, Carthage, and the Italian merchant republics for examples, especially since America has an...