Well, aren't modern goods manufactured by enslaving or at least
worsening living conditions of huge amounts of people? Remember the
Odoni people or the seabirds when you drive your car... We are not much better than
those ancient societies. Everytime, OTHERS pay the real cost of our
goods (most flagrant is of course the US price of gasoline). I am of
course guily too - where do you think the silver for our films comes
from? I dare not to think more...
Frantisek
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would take that position.
Romans, Mayans, Incas, Egyptians, and most other ancient societies
enslaved huge numbers of people who where literally worked to death to
build those extravagant monuments. The economies of those societies
were fueled by forceably stealing resources from neighboring peoples,
enslaving them, and forcing the majority to attend to every whim of the
minority. They operated at a level of brutality unheard of in the
modern world. The monuments and incredible buildings you see today
were built at a phenomenal cost of human life and suffering. Waste of resources?
Absolutely.
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