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nexguy@lemmy.world 2 months agoWhat were most people doing before the industrial revolution? Farming.
Comment on Anon hates smartphones
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 months agoWhat were most people doing before the industrial revolution? Farming.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
uis@lemm.ee 2 months ago
No, capitalism only incentivises profiting.
Except in the end you will get innovations of greed.
Wrong! Sadly, article is only in Russian.
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 months 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.