Things were achieved by blood for millennia, and not much got better. But after a couple centuries of technological growth and free exchange, things are better.

Things were achieved by blood for millennia, and not much got better. But after a couple centuries of technological growth and free exchange, things are better. The person you're replying to doesn't "disengage and offer nothing", they participate in technological growth and free exchange, for which you declare them complicit and call for blood.