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by grzeshru 778 days ago
Has society ever been safe, productive or prosperous? I’d argue it hasn’t. I think smaller collectives have managed to eek out a bit of solace but society as a whole has always been at each other’s throats. Our notion of productivity is mostly moved forward by one hand not seeing the other.
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Common go back to Twitter already
Modern first world countries are incredibly safe, productive and prosperous by any historical measure. You have to have a completely skewed perspective not to see this.