100% agree people are as moral as technology makes it easy to be People have slavery without qualms for tens of thousands of years and then "somehow" had a moral epiphany ... right around the time steam engines became useful. Curious coincidence !https://twitter.com/EdLatimore/status/1198966424032743425 …
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5/ also "increased competition", if anything, shifts production to the most efficient producer. C.f. Ricardo's Law of Comparative advantage ; trade makes us richer and thus LOWERS demand for labor required to produce at the same level
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6/ I largely agree with thishttps://twitter.com/Saradin1337/status/1199081541936267265 …
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7/ my theory is that technology drives social change, which explains why slavery ended after steam engines and feminism started after the Pill. Your theory is ... people did it because they wanted to control people. Which ... applied in 100 BC, yes?https://twitter.com/brabakr/status/1199082025057021952 …
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8/ Efficient for whom? Slavery is efficient for slaveholders ; if it wasn't, they wouldn't do it. Also, it's not "confusing" morality and economics, it's making a point re connection between professed morals and economics. I thought that was obvious.https://twitter.com/onefiftyfivemm/status/1199109461140328449?s=19 …
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Disagree here. Again, I think this is fruit of the Pill. It allowed women to more reliably control their fertility. Delaying childbirth allowed them to climb the ladder more easily.
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Feminism happened as a tool of control. Women are very tuned to peer pressure. The thinking goes, to weaponize pathology that you invent overnight, you get industry onboard and you move the lumpen.
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I disagree but only in that I think it was a confluence of things When the economy is up, the pill exists, the electric oven, the vacuum, the washing machine, and the super market are a thing suddenly you've got an educated person who does what used to take a day done in a few
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Also birth control allowed them to reliably postpone childbirth.
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