>> Remind us again; what's the non-aberrate baseline historical epoch
>> which facilitates your judgement that capitalism is an aberration?
>>
>> Ian
>>
>
> Umm--hundreds of thousand of years of human prehistory?
>
> Miles
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With that rhetorical tactic, *any* epoch can be redescribed and repurposed as an aberration. Are chordates an aberration? Are lungs an aberration? How about spotted animals as opposed to striped ones?