• InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    My god man, just sign up for some history classes at your nearest university. Or maybe just listen to some podcast or something. This is just horribly insensitive, and I don’t even think you know why it is so.

    • Wanderer@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      The gdp of the west exploded because of the industrial revolution. To claim that wasn’t the largest force for changes in gdp is madness. It separated gdp so directly from labour that gdp stopped being so heavily related to population.