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Considering capitalism is a very new phenomenon in human history, how do you think people survived and thrived for the other 248000 years? It's as ludicrous to believe that capitalism is some kind of force of nature as it is to believe kings were chosen by god.

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That depends on how you define your terms. A pro-capital laissez-faire policy is new, sure.

But the first civilizations in the world around 3000BC had trade, money, banking, capital accumulation, divison of labour etc.

> how do you think people survived and thrived for the other 248000 years?

In small tribes, where everyone knew everyone intimately because they lived together, and everything was managed by feels.

Things like rules, laws, money, banking, hierarchies, well-defined private vs. public ownership, are all things that came with scale, because interpersonal relationships fail to keep group cohesion once it reaches more than ~100 people.

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