sharing based on bonds of love is more resilient than trading based on mutual benefit. love changes slowly, mutual benefit is different between one second and the next. problem with sharing and love is that the average human can only record and maintain 150-200 other humans in our memory banks, so if you want a society based around sharing and love it has to be 150 individuals or smaller. such groups then get crushed by larger agrarian societies that have made the faustian bargain of mutual benefit trading. guns might be gay but that doesn't mean you can win a war by going back to the sword.
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