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So... I’ve been trying to find supporting arguments for my intuition that even though death rate is far lower than Spanish Flu (2%) and European Black Death (25-30%), the civilizational damage is comparable. I’ve found a pretty good one...
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You’re also conflating valuing in the sense of dignity, and valuing in an economic/technological sense as a necessary component of societal mechanisms. I’m mainly talking about the latter. Mexican farm laborers are not valued in dignity terms in the US but highly valued as labor.