So how do people who think capitalism has always existed reconcile this idea with capitalism being the source of modern luxuries
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings
"Capitalism brought you the smartphone AND also kept Europe under the thumb of competing warlords and theology for centuries!" Uh my dude,
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings
So capitalism brought us the luxuries of the last century, but also kept down progress for a long-ass time? Which is it friendo
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings
Maybe, just maybe, technological innovation is entirely orthogonal to capitalism, OR capitalism is recent, OR both are true? Food 4 thought
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings @AndriErlingsson
They tend to argue that we've been on a constant upward technological acceleration that's always been going as fast as it can go
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It's a headache because claims like that end up being unfalsifiable
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