Comment by tetromino_
22 minutes ago
> It's only for war or to consolidate power in the hands of the ruling class
Consider Egyptian and Mesopotamian irrigation and flood management, Persian and Roman roads, Chinese canals...
22 minutes ago
> It's only for war or to consolidate power in the hands of the ruling class
Consider Egyptian and Mesopotamian irrigation and flood management, Persian and Roman roads, Chinese canals...
What about them? These technologies already existed, the only thing that changed is that the economiies of scale that were brought by the centralized power.
Roman aqueducts, modern railroads, the moon landing, the LOTR films, CERN, or Wikipedia...
This seems like an open-and-shut case of failing to look for disconfirming evidence.