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Governments should have instituted a lot more regulations a thousand years ago to eliminate poverty.
by ryan93 5y ago
Governments should have instituted a lot more regulations a thousand years ago to eliminate poverty.
- InitialLastName 5y agoYou joke, but there's no denying that the last millennium's trend of increasing government centralization, stability, control over the use of violence, and enforcement of property rights (in whatever systematic form they take) has been a factor in this reduction in poverty levels. Nothing is quite as good at causing desperate poverty cycles as most of your local infrastructure getting regularly forcibly undeveloped in a civil war, or the chaos of local resources getting stolen by whatever brigands show up.
- ryan93 5y agoI agree of course. Just being a little facetious.