Min wage would be $44 / hour if it had grown at same rate as Wall Street bonuses

Re:Min wage would be $44 / hour if it had grown at same rate... by belgian_guy on Sunday April 11, 2021 @07:24AM (#26769496)

Following this reasoning, why didn't the enlightenment occur in asia, which had earlier access to gunpowder? Iirc the ottoman empire had portable guns before the west. And china had fire lances way before that.

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Re:Min wage would be $44 / hour if it had grown at same rate... by ben_w on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:04PM (#26891439)

“Gun” isn’t one single tech; you start with a canon that’s hard to move, dangerous to the user, and with a smooth barrel and ball that doesn’t have good accuracy.

Industry to make gunpowder cheaply and reliably rather than as one-offs for anti-castle siege weapons, and metallurgy and tooling to make the weapons hand-held and not prone to exploding in the operator’s hand, are what I have to assume old Asia lacked.

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Re:Min wage would be $44 / hour if it had grown at same rate... by donw on Sunday April 11, 2021 @07:49AM (#26769623)

Because the Enlightenment was a complex social phenomenon with multiple prerequisites...?

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