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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Human nature is sculpted and shaped by the material conditions around you, it's not something immutable and forever the same.

If a society is built around endless accumulation then of course it would be considered only natural to most.

After all, if you were born and lived your whole life in a coal mine, you'd say it's human nature to cough.