You figure our society is "increasingly extractive and unequal"? That may be true relative to post-WW2 America, but on a larger scale--either historically or geographically--can you really hold that modern society is more extractive and unequal than slave societies, serfdoms, and empires of the past?

Honestly, population growth has, if anything, correlated to increasingly equal and egalitarian societies.

▲ dotancohen a day ago | parent | next [-]

  > has, if anything, correlated

This phrasing is delicate. Correlated, but likely not caused by nor a cause of. Just two things that happened in parallel.

To be clear, I am agreeing with you.

▲ RobotToaster a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Wealth inequality in the USA today is worse than 1789 France https://populareconomics.substack.com/p/is-wealth-inequality...

	▲	t-3 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Wealth inequality is largely irrelevant outside of limited goods like real estate. The poorest today live lives that much more closely resemble the lives of the wealthiest of today than was the case even 100 years ago. Access (to resources, shelter, entertainment, etc) inequality is far lower than in the past. Social inequality is lower than ever before. 50-60 years ago the US was still de jure racially segregated in many places.