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by 8note 76 days ago
those hundreds and thousands of years were basically before humanity learned that prosperity could exist.

no growth that whole time, other than when you go to war and expand your gold supply by taking somebody else's.

the positive sum present is much better than the zero sum past

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those hundreds and thousands of years were basically before humanity learned that prosperity could exist.

No, it was pretty much up until the early 1900s