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Yeah, the people the very people who will snigger at someone selling "quantum healing" defend economic theories which have no scientific rigor. And the worse part is the dominant theories operate in a manner that they are self fulfilling.

Capitalism promotes monetary profits as the incentive because humans are self interested.

is one among them, but is it the other way around? Is the system manufacturing behaviors that it takes for as a cause?

I was reading Debt : The 5000 years, where the author, an anthropologists makes the case of how capitalism destroyed the communal behavior of tribes in different parts of the world.



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