naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · edit-22 months agoThe new lemming experiencelemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square316linkfedilinkarrow-up1900arrow-down157file-text
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minus-squareSmall_Quasar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 months ago 100,000 years or so, in various forms Homosapiens have been around for 300,000 years. Homos (lol) have been around for millions of years. Homo erectus was around for just shy of two million years alone. And for the vast majority of that time we weren’t engaged on a free market economy.
minus-squareOryxAndCake@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down15·2 months agoThanks for the correction, I really should have looked that up before writing it down. That ‘free market economy’ wasn’t born of a vacuum with no prior human influence. We made it.
Homosapiens have been around for 300,000 years. Homos (lol) have been around for millions of years. Homo erectus was around for just shy of two million years alone.
And for the vast majority of that time we weren’t engaged on a free market economy.
Thanks for the correction, I really should have looked that up before writing it down.
That ‘free market economy’ wasn’t born of a vacuum with no prior human influence. We made it.