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The second assumption is that capitalism has some necessary kind of correlation with “human nature.” This, as a matter of fact, is the same assumption as the first but expressed differently. To see that it is false, it is not required to be sure just what “human nature” may be. It is enough to observe that human nature has been able to adapt itself to dozens of types of society, many of which have been studied by anthropologists and historians and a number of which have lasted far longer than capitalism.
