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> Is it possible that they were, in fact, made, but simply didn't catch on? There's probably a few like that but it's probably just more simply "people didn't
by zimpenfish 3y ago
> Is it possible that they were, in fact, made, but simply didn't catch on?
There's probably a few like that but it's probably just more simply "people didn't have the spare time to be sitting around thinking and inventing unless it impacted on improving food access, etc. until society started to get easier."
- NoraCodes 3y agoI dunno, the ancients did an awful lot of sitting around. At least the rich ones.
- ben_w 3y agoYeah, but there weren't very many of them. Each level of the office building I'm in right now is about half the Parthenon's floor area… and when the Parthenon was new, Athens was about a quarter million people of whom only about 10% were "free".