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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by spenczar5 on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:37PM (#13563079)
I agree: modern life is better than ancient life, in general, for the reasons you describe. But that's not the two choices I was putting forward, which are an industrial economy or an agrarian one.

Those changes in infant mortality, for example, are largely due to better hygiene around births and in handling infants. Wash your hands and boil your water; you can still be in an agrarian economy and do this.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by afarrell on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:23PM (#13563870)
But you also need the technology and culture of birth control or else you run up against the ability of your methods of food production to prevent starvation.
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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by kuschku on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:21PM (#13563426)
This is an interesting discussion in Star Trek IX: Insurrection.

A society which knows about warp travel, but has chosen to live an agrarian lifestyle again, while keeping their technological knowledge.

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