The oversimplified version of history is this: men have always and will always be greedy. But this isn’t necessarily true. The bias in play is that when you read about history, you usually only hear of the conquerors, not the billions upon billions of people who lived tranquil and cooperative lives.

The oversimplified version of history is this: men have always and will always be greedy. But this isn’t necessarily true. The bias in play is that when you read about history, you usually only hear of the conquerors, not the billions upon billions of people who lived tranquil and cooperative lives.