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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by gilbetron on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:33PM (#17517342)
That seems like an incredibly uneducated view of what the world was like previously.
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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by hutzlibu on Thursday July 12, 2018 @03:49PM (#17518039)
Interesting, care to provide arguments?

I provided mine: we had empires as default, they needed lots of slaves. Slaves must be strong, but stupid. Smart slaves were trouble. So got sorted out.

Simplified, yes, but "uneducated" where?

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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by gilbetron on Thursday July 12, 2018 @08:35PM (#17519724)
> Interesting, care to provide arguments?

Read a history book. Hell, read Timeline by Michael Crichton.

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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by hutzlibu on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:45AM (#17523336)
Not an argument. I believe I read a lot of history books. So can you then provide me with your enlightened wisdom that you got, I apparently failed to grasp?
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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by gilbetron on Saturday July 14, 2018 @11:23PM (#17533642)
"needed lots of dumb workers and peasants who were able to do their simple work"

Sounds like a very Monty Python-esque view of history, that's all. Perhaps you have a far more nuanced view, but it doesn't come across as such.

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