• tallwookie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    technology advances because people in power pay for it. it doesn’t passively increase.

    societies eventually stagnate without capital investments into technology.

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      1 year ago

      You do realize that we have roughly 3-4 millenias of technological advancements, before we even invented early capitalist theory? The vast majority of human history contradicts your statement.