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That condition is quite normal in an empirical sense. It is how almost all civilizations in the world have been structured for almost all of history. The condi
by pjlegato 10y ago
That condition is quite normal in an empirical sense. It is how almost all civilizations in the world have been structured for almost all of history.
The conditions of the past 200 years -- mass urbanization driven by the Industrial Revolution, and then the post-industrial service economy -- are both highly anomalous, a brief, tiny outlier in the vast historical data.