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• piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Most were farmers because humans needed food, and food productivity was low before the age of industrialization. Not really sure what you are trying to argue other than it took a long time for enough progress was made to free humans to presue other things other than farming their land.

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  • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Capitalism incentivises rapid progress in all fields.

    I’m not cheering for capitalism, just saying it takes advantage of the inherent greed of people to quickly speed innovation. There would be no industrial revolution without capitalism. At least not on the short scale of just a hundred years or two.

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, capitalism only incentivises profiting.

      I’m not cheering for capitalism, just saying it takes advantage of the inherent greed of people to quickly speed innovation.

      Except in the end you will get innovations of greed.

      There would be no industrial revolution without capitalism.

      Wrong! Sadly, article is only in Russian.

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      • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Russia’s industrial revolution did not happen in a bubble. They did not invent the technology that allowed the industrial revolution, they took advantage of others inventions to take a very inefficient rout to the revolution. They have enormous resources and a vast population… yet it was much smaller capitalist nations that advanced much faster.

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