Reminds me of this John Ruskin quotepic.twitter.com/MJREzMeN50
Cities that we think of as marvels from the past that we could not match were built by people much poorer than us.https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1198865077165678592 …
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Perhaps those people were trying to maximize for a greater purpose whereas today we optimize for wealth and budgets.
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If wealth is a measure of how much of other peoples time you get to buy, then perhaps those who commissioned those cities may have been far wealthier than the people of today.
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Does it really count if you’re not “buying” their time and they’re being forced to build?
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Couldn't have been that poor if they could afford a house in Sydney, walking distance from a beach clean enough to eat the oysters from.
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Yeah slaves..
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Why wealth is a relevant metric in the topic?
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from 1932. Same same.
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