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Half way to Infinity
Nobody said it waswe are.
I'm not ridiculing anything. I'm pointing out that pre IR agriculture wasnt any sort of idyll for those involved.
Precisely. We now feed a population of 65 million compared to a fraction of that.
as opposed to the wealth being in the hands of the Duke of Whatsit.
How about moving forward? The problem is precisely that we had a government policy dictated by the needs of the market. We had a brief flirtation with turning it to the needs people as democracy grew in strength, but now we’ve reverted to the market led model.
Economics is about who gets what and currently it is going to those with most to gain from a market led economy
Yes.
And the one that we have had a century or two and a couple of wars to correct.
It is. A century or two after the IR.
Yes. The Industrial Revolution is far too compromised to be something worthy of pride. That does not make it something worthy of shame either. It is what it is; a part of our history with it’s actors, mechanisms, events, ideas and consequences.