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> Once upon a time, everyone in the entire world lived in dire poverty on the brink of starvation. Untrue. The world has always had problems, even today, but i
by pietrovismara 6y ago
> Once upon a time, everyone in the entire world lived in dire poverty on the brink of starvation.
Untrue. The world has always had problems, even today, but it's ridiculous to think that everything was bad (before capitalism, isn't that what you meant?). That is propaganda you are repeating out without even noticing.
Go study history before making absolute claims like that.
- ksdale 6y agoI've read plenty of history, thank you very much. I didn't say everything was bad, I said everyone lived in poverty and regularly worried about starving to death, which is objectively true for most people through most of history. (At least, they lived in what we now consider poverty.) Until sometime in the last few hundred years, the vast majority of human effort was spent on trying to make sure there was enough food, and famine was far more common than it is today. The fact that life was so hard does not mean that people didn't find meaning in it or that it was bad by any means, but what's ridiculous to me is to suggest that there is a finite amount of wealth in the world when very obviously there is more today than there was yesterday and who knows how much more than there was a thousand years ago.