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Technology helps both sides. It leaves behind those unwilling to change. None of the other issues moves the needle. The italian mafia lost power that was gra
by ipaddr 3y ago
Technology helps both sides. It leaves behind those unwilling to change.
None of the other issues moves the needle. The italian mafia lost power that was grabbed by other groups who might have committed more crimes. Cashless societies get bank cards stolen or cards read as you purchase. Dangers a cash only society didn't have.
DNA would have the biggest impact. Abortion matches the stats/timeline.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoLead is also a possibility for those times. Perhaps they were too quick to dismiss it.
- gunapologist99 2y agoIt's shocking to me that they just saw two partially aligned curves that confirmed their biases and then wrote a best-selling book (yes, I bought a copy as well) selling their admitted "hypothesis" while completely ignoring or giving short shrift to any alternative hypotheses or other possibilities for why those two curves seemed to be in alignment. This seems, to me, to violate scientific ethics. And now they write an article in the Economist, of all places, defending their terrible science. Freakonomics took a few outrageous "things you didn't know about X" headlines and made a fortune selling fool's gold.