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That would apply to the large majority of the people on this planet for the past few thousand years.
by goatlover 4y ago
That would apply to the large majority of the people on this planet for the past few thousand years.
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- moloch-hai 4y agoThe "past few thousand years" is a tiny fraction of the human timeline. And, the overwhelming majority of even the "past few thousand years" is obscured. What remains is a poster example of selection bias: hierarchical organizations depend more on writing, so the written record is of hierarchical societies.