Yeah, but we discovered oil. Humanity suddenly had unbounded energy to do what it needed to drive machines. Both capitalist and non capitalist systems brought o

Yeah, but we discovered oil. Humanity suddenly had unbounded energy to do what it needed to drive machines. Both capitalist and non capitalist systems brought over a billion people out of poverty. USA and Europe on one hand and USSR and China on the other. Behind it all is abundance of energy. It would be a mistake to attribute it to a system like capitalism which never really existed in anything close to a "pure" form anywhere ever.