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Neither capitalism nor communism "reflects human nature"

This claim is used often by supporters of both theories and it's totally bogus. Humans are neither the egotistic, selfish, dog-eat-dog competitors percieved by Hobbes and Machivelli, or the naturally good cooperators percieved by Rousseau and Marx. Human nature is simply too complex to be shoehorned into the tenants of an artifical economic theory. Sometimes competition is good, sometimes co-operation is good. Sometimes we're egotistic, sometimes we're altruistic. It's got nothing to do with either capitalism or communism.

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99.99 agreed. If human nature was as simple as that, that'd be the economic system of everywhere, and it'd never be an issue because people would just accept it.

The very small percentage that I'm on the ropes is although human nature might not be as simple as that, it does seem to have the affinity to greed more often than not.

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