There were a few hundred thousand years of prehistory where all evidence indicates we survived via primitive communism. No money, no land property or intellectual property. Yet we survived and even prospered, developing agriculture, animal domestication, metal working, tools, even specialization and primitive writing systems before we had exchange currency for daily activities like we have now. All accomplished without destroying the planet and without a profit motive! Why were these primitive peoples so innovative without the ability to patent and profit from these developments? Then we introduce money, debt, and individual land ownership, and suddenly the idea of 'nation states' comes around, and little petty tribal conflicts explode into Total Wars of hegemony, colonization, and extermination.
There were a few hundred thousand years of prehistory where all evidence indicates we survived via primitive communism. No money, no land property or intellectual property. Yet we survived and even prospered, developing agriculture, animal domestication, metal working, tools, even specialization and primitive writing systems before we had exchange currency for daily activities like we have now. All accomplished without destroying the planet and without a profit motive! Why were these primitive peoples so innovative without the ability to patent and profit from these developments? Then we introduce money, debt, and individual land ownership, and suddenly the idea of 'nation states' comes around, and little petty tribal conflicts explode into Total Wars of hegemony, colonization, and extermination.