The natural distribution of wealth, on the other hand, is eminently fair. Before agriculture everyone was poor. After the rise of agriculture almost everyone wa

The natural distribution of wealth, on the other hand, is eminently fair. Before agriculture everyone was poor. After the rise of agriculture almost everyone was poor but there were many more of them, and those who were “not poor” had no medicine worth the name, could not travel with anything resembling modern convenience and lived in the dark when the sun went down. Starting sometime between 1300 and 1800, depending on measurement the first sustained rise in living standards in human history began, because of capitalism. It’s how almost all other sustained rises in living standards have happened too. China’s first growth miracle in the 20th century happened because going from civil war to the Communist Party was an improvement but in India, China, Indonesia, Russia, moving to capitalism lead to a rise in living standards. Fairness would be nice but let’s try getting everyone out of poverty first.