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The Industrial Revolution and Enlightenment. Growth was negligible over human lifetimes for as long as their were humans, yet in the last 200 – 250 years most p
by vwoolf 14y ago
The Industrial Revolution and Enlightenment. Growth was negligible over human lifetimes for as long as their were humans, yet in the last 200 – 250 years most people in the Western world and Japan become orders of magnitude richer than our predecessors, and much of the rest of the world is catching up.
- Piskvorrr 14y agoTo play the devil's advocate, this could be interpreted as bubble-in-progress (what with "Peak $someResource imminent" etc.)
- alphydan 14y agoto add to Piskvorrr's point, if population isn't a bubble waiting to explode I don't know what is ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_curve.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_curve.svg