Comment by anang
17 days ago
I would argue the opposite is true. We’ve gone from despotic theocratic regimes controlling essentiallt every living human in the world to democratic self determination being one of the most prevalent political theories on the planet.
The tolerance for slavery, brutal warfare, institutionalized racism and much more is way lower now than it has been in the past.
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
For the last... 30 years? At least the first 20 of the last 30 years, and then it reversed.
LOL
The world has always be run by oligarchs, and nothing changed since ten thousands of years.
Most people today on this planet are still slaves.
Black people were bought and sold in the US just a few hundred years ago.
For years one of the perks of being a soldier was raping and pillaging, now that lands you in prison (depending on the country of course).
The world isn’t some utopia where everyone is treated fairly and there are no oligarchs, but I think it’s hard to argue that the amount of justice is unchanged for all of human history.
What is a labor market?
Do you know that today's soldiers still rape and pillage?
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> I think it’s hard to argue that the amount of justice is unchanged for all of human history
I agree.
It got worse.
The inequality between people was never so high in history! Hard fact.
Now some people "earn" more money while they breeze in and out then large amounts of people earn in their whole life.
Also now the slaves have to pay everything themself (like food, shelter, clothes, in some countries even education). Progress!
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