Very much to the point — Noah Smith writes about technology and progress:
> To ask why some societies in the world are still poor is the wrong question. Poverty is the default condition, not just of humanity but of the entire Universe. If humanity simply doesn’t build anything — farms, granaries, houses, water treatment systems, electric power stations — we will exist at the level of wild animals. This is simply physics.
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-elemental...
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