In the old times people would just shoot you or before clubbed to the head and take your cow/wife/house etc.
Yes, now we have some laws and all that but in reality: stealing is still rampant, just a different kind!?
Yes, now we have some laws and all that but in reality: stealing is still rampant, just a different kind!?
If modern bankers and sycophantic politicians et al tried their modus operandi back in the era of tribes, I’m quite sure they were removed from the gene pool fairly quickly.
Often times this included moneylenders.. who were usually a religious minority. It usually involved their kids too.
More along the lines of:
Jim has a bad habit of being a bit of a dick—harassing & bullying tribespeople, taking an unfair amount from the tribe—Jim gets removed from the gene pool next hunting trip. The quality of the tribe, present and future, improves.
I understand how this kind of thing doesn't track very well as a strategy overall in more complex & modern environments.
While some is gained and some is lost, I'm in the camp that the world is a better place now than it was then.