re: My feeling on capitalism

I think it's funny as hell when people ask if we would like to go back to the 19th century when working conditions were bad as if they were not bad in the 18th century and before all the way back in recorded human history.

The industrial revolution was a transitional phase. Child labor. Guess what? Children had ALWAYS worked. Poverty. Guess what? Before the industrial revolution EVERYONE was poor. Even kings had to piss in a pot and toss it out the window.

The average world wealth per person in 1000 BCE was about 150 dollars per person. It did not exceed 200 per year by 1750. So if you factor in at least 100,000 years of human history it took 97,000 years to go from 100 per person to 150 per person and then another 2750 years to get to 200 per person. Today its 6600 per person. So I wonder what strange idea it was around that time that caused wealth to escalate so quickly?