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Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is the Invention of Private Property the Birth of Tribal Behavior?

Rousseau argues that the invention of private property was also the birth of hierarchy and tribal behaviour. There's probably a lot of truth to that, if you look at the evidence we have here. I don't want to give people the picture that I'm sort of against civilisation, right, or that I want to go back and live as nomadicans together. Obviously not. We've made tremendous progress in the past couple of decades. But how will it be 100 years from now or two and it years from now? If you look at things like climate change or the extinction of species.

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