https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/5smsl4/income_share_for_the_bottom_50_of_americans_is/ddgqrro/

This guy comes and out of nowhere says that A crude view of evolution says that those who want the most capital for themselves are more likely to survive.

Yes, I must've misread that chapter in "on the origin of the species". No explanation on why it's linked to capital for humans in any way at all. Doesn't comprehend that "owning" in capitalism is an specific form of ownership (different from kings, from lords, from ownership in other parts of the world currently, etc) and compares "capital" (whatever they meant by that) to survivability. Clearly doesn't comprehend evolution either, as that's not how the mechanism works. If poor people and rich people are both alive by now, in evolutionary terms they're both of equal standing. Being more likely to survive is just one of endless mechanisms of evolution (such as reproducing a lot).

Oh, and all this after a shitty quote from a book saying "humanity is doomed to be very unequal except when war happens lol" that offer no explanation other than "looking at data, only after great wars did people become more equal and then went back to being unequal". Right, because there's a lot of data on all of humanity in its whole existence as civilization recording income and living standards and oh, by the way, what caused the wars? nvm lol :p

I don't even know why I'm subscribed to that sub anymore...