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The article ignores agriculture and animal husbandry as the critical inflection point for property rights and mass conflict. You could argue proto-versions of t
by inshard 11mo ago
The article ignores agriculture and animal husbandry as the critical inflection point for property rights and mass conflict. You could argue proto-versions of these dynamics existed even in abundant hunting grounds—see Native American tribal warfare over territory.
More importantly, it misses technology as a third layer. As technology deflates the base layers of Maslow’s hierarchy, inequality matters less in absolute terms. The main constraint now is housing, but even that could be solved through vertical development and better long-term urban planning.
We might actually be at escape velocity to break the historical cycles described here.
- estimator7292 11mo agoWe still have to survive climate change and the current fad of authoritarianism. Positive thinking and technology aren't enough to save us on this one
- baddash 11mo agoah the telltale em dash — you know what it means
- phito 11mo agoIt means pretty much nothing here on HN, lots of people were using it before LLMs. However, people constantly pointing it out is getting tiresome.
- OhMeadhbh 11mo agoThe sad thing is once I learned what an em-dash was in college, I started using it everywhere. Fast forward a few decades and suddenly... Oh wait... You don't suppose I'm a... No. I couldn't be. I didn't use a dash in this entire reply!