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by PrimeMcFly 1152 days ago
That would be wrong though. The capitalist economy in the US has lasted literally centuries.
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malermeister 1152 days ago
Centuries are "several decades".
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PrimeMcFly 1152 days ago
Sure, but when people say decades they generally mean an amount less than multiple centuries, or they would have said centuries...
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malermeister 1152 days ago
True, but it's not wrong as claimed above.
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PrimeMcFly 1152 days ago
It is if you consider the meaning that was being communicated and not the technical dictionary definition of words.
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