Cows Look Like Maps to Canada@lemmy.ca • 19 days agoNetanyahu lashes out at Carney for daring to criticize himsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square118fedilinkarrow-up1521arrow-down110
arrow-up1511arrow-down1imageNetanyahu lashes out at Carney for daring to criticize himsh.itjust.worksCows Look Like Maps to Canada@lemmy.ca • 19 days agomessage-square118fedilink
minus-square@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilink4•edit-219 days agoYeah, it’s a little known fact, but civilisation was unambiguously shit until at least 1880. It’s far better to be a starving hunter-gatherer than a starving peasant by just about every measure.
minus-square@Not_mikey@slrpnk.netlinkfedilink4•19 days agoNot if you measure it by how many shiny objects a small group has access to.
minus-square@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilink4•19 days agoYes, being one of the elites that doesn’t die in a nasty way was often a better deal.
Yeah, it’s a little known fact, but civilisation was unambiguously shit until at least 1880. It’s far better to be a starving hunter-gatherer than a starving peasant by just about every measure.
Not if you measure it by how many shiny objects a small group has access to.
Yes, being one of the elites that doesn’t die in a nasty way was often a better deal.