2,000 Years of Economic History

[Toro]

I love stuff like this.

Quantifying history: Two thousand years in one chart | The Economist

 

[Liberty]

damn, the 21st century sucks so far.

 

[Toro]

damn, the 21st century sucks so far.

The 21st century is only a decade old. The bars are sum totals, not relative measures.

 

[william the wie]

While I doubt the 21st century will suck using the measurements we use now may make it look like it does at the end of the century.

 

[xsited1]

Reminds of a quote from the Matrix:

Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.

 

[Trajan]

cannot rep right now bud....sorry.

oh take the red pill...