Re:Lessons from Roman Empire about dangers of luxury
by 1cvmask on Saturday April 17, 2021 @05:54PM
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This is the problem with these writers is that they lack precision in their arguments and conflate partial facts with delusions to come to a desired outcome.
From the article:
“Faced with a trade deficit with China, the British Empire flooded their country with cheap opium they had shipped over from India. A luxury drug became an addiction, and the British traded their opium for porcelain, tea, and silk.”
Britain started a series of wars on China to accept the drug Opium which was banned in China.
Modern Germany and the technological advancements was not enslaved, weakened or slowed down by the universal social security and healthcare system enacted by Bismarck in 1883:
From the article:
“Faced with a trade deficit with China, the British Empire flooded their country with cheap opium they had shipped over from India. A luxury drug became an addiction, and the British traded their opium for porcelain, tea, and silk.”
Britain started a series of wars on China to accept the drug Opium which was banned in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
Modern Germany and the technological advancements was not enslaved, weakened or slowed down by the universal social security and healthcare system enacted by Bismarck in 1883:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck#Social_legis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany