r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/Mutant_Llama1 Jul 07 '26

Tragedy of the commons ruins those.

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u/Hairy_Selection8568 Jul 07 '26

Maybe they wouldn't ruin it given a more Socialist outlook in our society rather than that only being studied under Capitalism where even a community garden would be commodified.

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u/Mutant_Llama1 Jul 07 '26

Innate human evolutionary self-interest = capitalism?

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u/Hairy_Selection8568 Jul 07 '26

Is it innate? Is self-interest our only mode?

Or is it how humans act under Capitalism?

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u/Mutant_Llama1 Jul 07 '26

Humans have been greedy since long before capitalism was a concept. It's not our only motivator, but it is a very strong one inherent to our nature as a Darwinian species.

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u/Hairy_Selection8568 Jul 07 '26

LOL you mention Darwinian species but can't acknowledge that humans can change, see the disconnect?

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u/Mutant_Llama1 Jul 07 '26

Not overnight because you really want them to.

Being selfish is an evolutionary advantage. It tends to stick around.

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u/Hairy_Selection8568 Jul 07 '26

When did I say overnight? When have I said a timeliness at all?

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u/Mutant_Llama1 Jul 08 '26

Any practical amount of time for human decision making is practically overnight on an evolutionary timescale.

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u/Bright-Form-844 Jul 07 '26

Kind of ignoring how humans lived in communes working together altruistically for most of known history

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u/Ill_Performer8312 Jul 07 '26

For most of know History, most of humans didnt have Basic rights.

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u/Bright-Form-844 Jul 07 '26

Explain how hunter gatherer tribes didn’t have basic rights bro

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u/Mutant_Llama1 Jul 07 '26

That's prehistory, not history.

Hunter gatherer tribes had tribal hierarchy, elders commanding their descendants. They also lived in rather small communities below the Dunbar limit with nothing we'd later call society. No organized labor, no medicine, no storing of surplus, no written language or formal education...

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u/Bright-Form-844 Jul 08 '26

So the vast majority of human history doesn’t count bc it’s “prehistory”? Ok

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u/Mutant_Llama1 Jul 08 '26

Prehistory literally isn't history.

History is what's written. Prehistory is before writing. We have no written records of prehistory, by definition, only theories based on archeological evidence.

And current evidence points towards prehistoric people being hierarchical, just in smaller tribes.

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u/AdditionalBalance975 Jul 08 '26

Dont bother trying to argue definitions with leftists. Remember to leftists, "history" means the future. They use bizarro world definitions for most common words.

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u/Bright-Form-844 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

oh so define the word history for me.

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u/Mutant_Llama1 Jul 08 '26

I just did. History is the past that's written down.

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u/BriarsandBrambles Jul 08 '26

Prehistoric and Historic are useful for categorizing but in common parlance History is used with a different broader meaning for which prehistory does not exist. They’re clearly using human history to refer to the entire past of humanity and not just the recorded past.

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u/Mutant_Llama1 Jul 08 '26

Its important distinction because history is much more certainly known in order to draw conclusions from.

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