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minus-squareIrateAnteater@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·7 months agoThere’s not much else to choose from if you are looking at cities, etc, built before modern capitalism.
minus-square🦄🦄🦄@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoYou are missing the point. Here it is again: Capitalism is not a requirement for human advancement.
minus-squareIrateAnteater@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoIf that’s the point, then stop pointing to the past as an example of it. All that’s proving is that there are worse options we have tried.
minus-squareSemjaza@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoIs it? Admittedly we don’t know loads about but Mohen Darjo and early Uruk look pretty good, and some Mayan cities and American Indian nations seem like they had very good standards of life pre-Europeans too.
There’s not much else to choose from if you are looking at cities, etc, built before modern capitalism.
You are missing the point.
Here it is again: Capitalism is not a requirement for human advancement.
If that’s the point, then stop pointing to the past as an example of it. All that’s proving is that there are worse options we have tried.
Is it?
Admittedly we don’t know loads about but Mohen Darjo and early Uruk look pretty good, and some Mayan cities and American Indian nations seem like they had very good standards of life pre-Europeans too.