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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by maverick_iceman on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:01PM (#13565380)
War and civil unrest has been extremely common throughout the world long before the industrial revolution. If anything war and violence have declined since the industrial revolution started (read Steven Pinker's Why Violence Declined). So I don't see how you can blame the industrial revolution for any residual unrest.
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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by smallnamespace on Saturday February 04, 2017 @12:35AM (#13565806)
Absolutely, but the sort of violence in preindustrial societies tended to be predictable and chronic (like tribal conflicts), whereas the industrial revolution enables total war, genocide, nuclear war, and other industrialized, sudden forms of human butchery.
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