Re:Is Inequality Inevitable?
by pdonis on Friday November 08, 2019 @11:26PM
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Everything you are saying is irrelevant to the argument I was making. My whole point is that the per capita GDP growth from then to now is not just a matter of us being more than 100x better at farming, or other things that we do now that they also did then; it is a matter of us being able to do things that did not event exist and were not even conceivable in the Stone Age.
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In what way is it irrelevant?
If more than 6% of current GDP is from farming, which it is, then everything else adds up to less than 20x the value farming provides. That’s just simple math.
So, we can just compare agricultural production and absolutely ignore everything else because it’s already included in the above calculation.
PS: Now you can argue that you care more about the internet or healthcare than a meal. But, I guarantee you would quickly change your mind if you had not eaten in several months. Food is an absolutely required and unlike air and water not naturally available for free in vast quantities.