I don’t think there is an earlier option for less money anymore but could be wrong.

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    If you ask my layman’s opinion, I would say absolutely. But it’s only because of one number: The entire world’s GDP, adjusted to inflation.

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-gdp-over-the-last-two-millennia?time=1870..latest

    In the same time frame, humanity went from 2 Billion people, to 10 billion people. 500% increase.

    I don’t care what the actual math works out to. If we have become literally 2500% more productive as a species in the last 100 years, while increasing the total amount of people a whole FACTOR down from that, then we deserve the other numeral root. We have a right to have 5x more average wealth than a person 100 years ago.

    And we don’t.

    Infact, google tells me we stagnated since the 70’s. Literally stopped the common man becoming richer since the post-wars.

    Where did 4 of those 5 go?

    Kill them. Cook them. Eat them.