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Is it not the greatest idea we have ever come up with? Sure there are tons of issues with it but it also converted the planet from tribal warfare to incredible
by xal 16y ago
Is it not the greatest idea we have ever come up with? Sure there are tons of issues with it but it also converted the planet from tribal warfare to incredible prosperity over the last hundreds of years.
- Andys 16y agoWhere "the planet" is only a subset of the planet.
- mishmash 16y agoMy guess would be that "the planet" would have preferred the tribal warfare way of life... just a hunch.
- code_duck 16y agoIt was the dominant economic system in place while that happened. I don't think we can say that technological advances were the result of capitalism, necessarily, or that they would not have happened under some other social structure.