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Originally Posted by snowman
Pretty much like the stone age Incas. A huge pile of stones, so what? Most of the people back then were slaves. What a way to live. Even the industrial revolution did not solve the slavery problem, it was capitalism that eventually did away with slavery and freed most people. Since the advent of capitalism, even the poor live like the kings of old. Capitalism also curred most of the disease that has cursed mankind forever. No more small pox, polio, and on and on.
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Think of it - those barbarians coming up with math and sceince and democracy (to name a few things).
Those things might have contributed (just a little) to this present age of earthly delights.