Quote Originally Posted by SendohJin View Post
what do you define as "current"? isn't "Thou shalt not covet" Old Testament? if you need a Commandment to warn against it doesn't that mean it has existed for a really long time?
Current in this case meaning the systems of market that have existed for millions of years, so I guess "current" is a bad turn of phrase, yeah. Covetous human societies have existed for a long, long time. They were awful viewed as awful, poisonous things anathema to our survival, which is why we wrote books warning against them. Sadly, those beliefs were repurposed a long, long time ago.

Still, we have developed many societies that didn't rely on accumulation and greed as the main mechanism of human survival. We also like to conveniently forget about them or write them off as savages when our forefathers conquered them in the name of...well, having more land to "survive" with.