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I think your point is true, but the implied causation is the other way initially - it's when we started getting rich (= increased productivity), that we could s

I think your point is true, but the implied causation is the other way initially - it's when we started getting rich (= increased productivity), that we could start to support increasingly large populations...which then in turn did lead to more humans producing more knowledge

ghufran_syed 3y ago
Interesting summary on the topic of "what changed to allow progress to happen?", from the intro to the book "Bourgeois Dignity" by Dierdre McCloskey: https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/556659.html https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/556659.html