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But you led with indoor plumbing. That is something that really only took of with an industrial base to produce the plumbing.
by avereveard 3y ago
But you led with indoor plumbing. That is something that really only took of with an industrial base to produce the plumbing.
- XorNot 3y agoCapitalism also didn't build indoor plumbing though. Or let me put it a different way: do you think the USSR did not have an industrial base? And who do you think paid for the construction of the municipal sewer systems in American cities? Like in Chicago where the whole city was raised 4 ft to accomplish it[1]. [1] https://gizmodo.com/chicago-was-raised-more-than-4-feet-in-the-1800s-to-bui-1646409024 https://gizmodo.com/chicago-was-raised-more-than-4-feet-in-t...
- avereveard 3y agoI can throw a dart on an italian map and the nearby houses will have indoor plumbing if there's some resident. can you do the same in russia today? > And who do you think paid state resources are always a fraction of the gdp trough whatever form of taxation. larger industrial base means proportional less burden on the society. that is why for example urss imploded, taxation was too high and spent too wastefully on military budget to be sustainable long term, while usa could spend that money on the defense budget, infrastructure, et etc, while still being sutainable from the economy, because the industrial base was so much larger.