No, not really. It’s more like they parked 1000 cars on top of a hill and then just pushed them down to see what they do expecting that the cars will stop on their own before hitting anyone.
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> they’re better than the rest at just working.
Yes, exactly what I said.
Probably not European, British workers were very well paid by continental standards (cost of living was higher though). If you want an example of pure exploitative capitalism where workers were reduced to near serfdom there is Belgium.
As if Apple is always right and knows what their users want. Sure they are more often than other companies but stuff like the touchbar and Siri itself for that matter prove that they do in fact make mistakes.
Huh.. well yeah, who cares what users need or want. Perfect attitude for a company making money by selling products to consumers.
Macs were quite repairable and most parts were replaceable until ~2012. So it’s hard to blame Jobs for that.
Yeah, probably I didn’t express it that well. I mean the ruling class was quite Latinized and had decent relations with the Crusader Kingdoms and often intermarried.
This was not at all popular amongst the masses (and more so the economy and trade being dominated by Italians and high taxes used to fund to fund all the mostly failed military campaigns). Andronikos utilized that in addition to general hatred towards the aristocracy during his coup which lead to the massacres and a permanent political shift. The Empire also lost most of the economic and political control it had over the Crusader States as after that (the Kingdom of Jerusalem was in practice a vasal state of the empire at the time and was reliant on Byzantine funding).
> People seem not to have a justification for why deflation
They obviously do. Because it disproportionately disadvantages debtors, makes investment much riskier and rewards rentiers, therefore reducing the economic productivity.
> one of these terrible deflationary events happen the country involved tends to end up a really nice place to live
Yeah, I think you need some additional arguments and data to establish that there is a causal link between these two. Same could be said about the economic booms in the US after WW1 and WW2 (to an extent the Civil War as well).
Prior to the massacre of the Latins the relationship between the east and west was pretty good, in fact the Byzantine ruling class was quite heavily westernized and the economy dominated by Italian merchants. The French princess ruling the empire on behalf of her underage son also wasn’t exactly popular amongst the masses. The subsequent coup and massacre pretty much permanently splintered a somewhat productive alliance that allowed Christians to retake much of Asia Minor ane the Levant in the preceding century.
I think the main benefit of bronze and it still existed in Roman times is that you can cast it instead of forging. It took almost two thousand years to figure out how to make steel cuirasses that resembled the bronze ones Greeks used before the classical period. Of steel chainmail or scale armor was already superior anyway.
The Greeks clearly had access to bronze from the archaic period and used large amounts of it to manufacture armor. Yet they still used iron for swords and spear points. This would indicate that iron was already superior to bronze for quite a few use cases.
If I was making as much money as I would in those countries that are ahead I wouldn’t mind living in Spain either. Otherwise good luck getting a place to live on a tiny salary if you don’t have your relatives to support you.
For instance the IRA was very mild and moderate by ETA standards.
The people who are over 100 probably had enough kids but in a few decades the generation that will start getting close to that age will only have themselves to blame since they didn’t have enough children (tax contributions can’t really compensate for that).
You only know of two major countries in the world?
If those technologies were concentrated amongst the elite and only a handful of palace scribes could write most people would have no or little contact with writing. Same with most people living outside of the palaces (overwhelming majority) and who had no access to the amenities.
It’s hard to say what happened but these collapses sometimes have paradoxical outcomes e.g. we have evidence that the quality of life and health improved for Western Europeans at least in some places after the Roman Empire collapsed (less population pressure, no crippling taxes etc.)