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Re:A world of free movement would be $78T richer by ipsocannibal on Saturday June 23, 2018 @04:33PM (#17383298)
I've considered this and deemed it to be false. A great counter example is Imperial China around 1300-1400AD. They were fantastically wealthy and politically stable yet "western values" did not develop.
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Re:A world of free movement would be $78T richer by tomp on Saturday June 23, 2018 @08:40PM (#17384306)
“Western values” didn’t develop in the West until the second half of the 20th century, so I’m not sure that’s a good argument.
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Re:A world of free movement would be $78T richer by ipsocannibal on Sunday June 24, 2018 @12:26AM (#17384929)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
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