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?
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
Our era is the industrial era, which began gradually, sometime in 1600-1800.
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Replying to @robinhanson
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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Replying to @s_r_constantin
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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Replying to @robinhanson
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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Replying to @s_r_constantin @robinhanson
While the 20th century and beyond was the “managerial” age, which began with a period of total state mobilization of the economy and the founding of certain “wartime” institutions (and cultural intuitions) that were never actually dismantled after WWII.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @robinhanson
I have a very strong sense (from reading contemporary accounts) that “the world ended in 1914” and also that “the new world began in 1945” and that “the 1945-present world is in decline”
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Map this roughly to “the British Empire & European balance-of-power”, and “American hegemony and the nuclear age”
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @robinhanson
Seem right that somewhere between 1907 and 1919 if you have to pick, based on history, old photos, and current power structures and institutions. The Who how why are important questions, no? Short timescale but multi generations back.
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