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InvertedRhodium • today at 8:05 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

The irony there is that the only time in recorded human history where global wealth inequality fell was immediately following WWI and then again after WWII.

I don't know what that says about our species, but I don't think it's complimentary.


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eddythompson80 • today at 8:11 AM

We literally have no reliable records of such a thing before the 1900s. All economical models before the 1900s are estimates drawn from other sources and a lot of guessing based on European models. It’s crazy to reduce “recorded human history” into European economical bullshit between the late 1800s to the mid 1900s.