Norms are beliefs without priors, and beliefs without priors are norms, which is why most rationalists are not normies.
Or you could admit that it is true that there was never as much absolute and median wealth and prosperity as today, and alternate modes of society empirically failed to replicate that. This is not a normative statement, just an argument that I first heard from Schopenhauer.
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I don't want to express that conservatism or progressivism or liberalism are preferable, because that is orthogonal to the argument itself. I just want to point out that the argument is not indefensible.
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