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CB: Interesting book. What's his evidence that material desires are never sated , that no human society has ever satisfied its material desires ?
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And so a social system--"capitalism"--which is as if designed to play off of this weak point in human psychology can flourish indefinitely.
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CB: Did it really take humans 40,000 years or more to come up with a system to play off of this human weak point, or is it more likely that many societies managed to satisfy their historically derived material desires substantially ?