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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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