If you had to pick a date for when “the world as we know it” began, whatever that means to you, what would it be?
I think the fact that I don’t exactly believe that underlies most of the differences between us that aren’t simply demographic.
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There are of course many differences between eras, but the largest differences in history are between the four great eras. Historians mostly agree with this. What difference would you suggest as larger than that?
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I became convinced by the claim in Moral Mazes (which I think was not original to the author) that the era of “the Protestant work ethic” (1600s-mid-1800s in the Anglosphere, with a hard stop in 1914) was a time when most businesses were small and most “workers” self-employed...
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