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In reply to the discussion: For the first 49 years of my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. [View all]Klaralven
(7,510 posts)28. Yes, the '70s were the end of the "rising tide lifts all boats" era.
The Club of Rome figured out that there wasn't enough "tide" for everyone, especially if that meant raising the "third world" to first world standards of living.
But, considering that the rest of the world couldn't be deprived for ever, the upper strata of the first world sought to improve their lot, and let the upper strata of the underdeveloped countries join them, while capping living standards for most of the population in the first world.
In a world of limited resources, you get what you can. It's simple economics -- the dismal science.
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For the first 49 years of my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. [View all]
soothsayer
Sep 2020
OP
An almost universal theme is the replacement of hunter/gatherers by agriculturalists
Klaralven
Sep 2020
#8
And now the workers/hunters/gatherers by technologists and vulture capitalists.
erronis
Sep 2020
#20
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." (Voltaire)
The Velveteen Ocelot
Sep 2020
#4
Today the Rohingya in Myanmar are being raped and slaughtered by their government.
Marcuse
Sep 2020
#46
believers of 2 similar relgious groups conspire to kill members of a different religious group.
msongs
Sep 2020
#6
Read John Dean's New Book if you want to understand what in human nature allows
Darwin2019
Sep 2020
#33
I was going through the same exercise last night, as I noted in the history forum here:
NNadir
Sep 2020
#34