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RedXIII on Aug 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Where has all the productivity gone?

Isn't this always true? If you were born three hundred years ago you could have just listed off some recent technological development and concluded everyone was spoiled babies.

_sillymarketing on Aug 1, 2021 [–]

True in recent history, but not always. For 200k years, humans lived the same exact life as their parents.

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