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There’s some really good videos about this. I’m ancient times, construction was very labor and resource intensive. But, infrastructure lasted centuries if not millennia. Then with the advent of capitalism rapid growth was prioritized over quality
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Anonymous 15h

That’s a very reductive way to look at it. Our infrastructure does very different things than theirs did. They built roads when nothing would ever really exceed 15mph, we build them for semi trucks moving at 70+ mph while weighing tens of tons. We couldn’t build roads that last millennia if we wanted to, and capitalism is irrelevant to that fact

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

Look at houses, cities, anything. Yeah it’s reductive, I’m tryna summarize like 3 hours of video thesis into 200 characters.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

It’s odd that you’d say that when we’re dramatically better at building all of those things today. The only surviving structures we have were built and owned by the wealthy of their time. If you think that argument makes itself, it doesn’t

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