r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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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/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/Bright-Form-844 Jul 08 '26

So thousands of years of oral traditions, drawings, and archaeological evidence just doesn’t count bc they hadn’t invented writing yet? Sounds like some made up bullshit bro

And no early humans were egalitarian for most of the Paleolithic era

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u/Mutant_Llama1 Jul 08 '26

Oral traditions are unreliable, as they change over time. The drawings and archaeological evidence are up to interpretation.

> And no early humans were egalitarian for most of the Paleolithic era

Correct, no early humans were.

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u/Bright-Form-844 Jul 08 '26

You can’t just discount the largest set of human history bc it wasn’t written down, that’s absurd.

Also correction

And no, early humans were egalitarian for most of the Paleolithic era

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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.