Roman Empire per capita GDP shows the Romans were poorer than any 2015 country

Re:Roman Empire per capita GDP shows the Romans were poorer ... by bamboozled on Thursday October 12, 2017 @04:18AM (#15456457)

I enjoyed how you've painted a bleak view of the past, not mention any of the nice things about times gone by and then pretend people longing for simpler times is a kind of ignorance.

You believe western civilisation has come a long way from the cesspool it mostly has been, while neglecting to think about the true cost of our material wealth, which is has resulted in much destruction of the natural world.

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Re:Roman Empire per capita GDP shows the Romans were poorer ... by Kiro on Thursday October 12, 2017 @07:03AM (#15457080)

> not mention any of the nice things about times gone by

Unexploited natural resources aside, what are those nice things?

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Re:Roman Empire per capita GDP shows the Romans were poorer ... by TeMPOraL on Thursday October 12, 2017 @07:19AM (#15457155)

Also: unexploited natural resources are mostly nice in so far as they're available to be exploited. That you have metric shittons of coal or lithium under your feet is pretty much meaningless if you can't do anything with it.

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