frame is less liberalism vs. socialism than growth vs. stasis. socialists once believed their system compatible with growth, which history unquestionably disproved. socialists now link stasis with morality — less a danger to us extra-nationally, catastrophic at home.
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I’m not sure i buy this. If anything growth has slowed down in the last decade or so. In living memory we’ve got Japan’s industrialization, China’s, 30+ years of full force Moore’s law, dramatic expansion of air travel downmarket, etc. what’s bigger than all that today?
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Damn beat me to it... just pulled my phone back out to mea culpa “oh right, a billion+ pocket computers”
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yes. Technological and scientific growth has been parabolically up-and-to the right for 20+ years since mobile, social, and cloud became infrastructural to the internet. See here: https://ourworldindata.org/technological-progress …
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*blergh "... became infrastructural to the [application development]" return editTweets == false :(
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