This is a common error communists make. They fail to recognize that giant companies literally represent the will of the people. Exxon is not burning billions of barrels of oil by itself for fun. All the things people want gas for still exist even if you guillotine their CEO.https://twitter.com/55Counties/status/1016362485698289665 …
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Corporations are people, my friend.
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No one ever holds toilet manufacturers responsible for how much shit there is in the sewers, but for some reason Gazprom is responsible for people wanting to heat their homes.
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Now announcing my upcoming book "Everybody Poops But it's About Politics This Time"
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But seriously, it almost seems like if Sewers as a technology had not been discovered hundreds of years ago and worked well, people would be responding to the problem of feces by saying Big Fiber needs to be restrained and you can help by engaging in Conscious Shitting at home.
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Hundreds? Perhaps for the “modern world,” but Romans built theirs thousands of years ago! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_in_ancient_Rome …
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Mohenjo-Daro and Skara Brae had sewers, or at least *drains*, thousands of years before Christ. It is interesting that the Indus Valley and the Scots, respectively, then managed to *forget* about this very simple and useful technology until a couple of centuries ago
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Yes, it is fascinating that such a simple and fundamentally useful technology would be forgotten for so long.
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I have my doubts it was truly forgotten, but rather that the level of societal functioning and organization needed to implement had perished. Building a municipal water system requires a strong central authority to manage land rights and distribution.
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Excellent points, Dan. I find the “raising of Chicago” a fascinating stage in this, and “The Great Stink of London.” Perhaps it wasn’t the technology that was forgotten, but the benefits themselves that were under appreciated?
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