Canary in the Coal Mine - Day

1:23PM

The divide between rich and poor nations came about as a result of the evolution of particular behaviors originating in Britain. Prior to 1790, Clark asserts, man faced a Malthusian trap: new technology enabled greater productivity and more food, but was quickly gobbled up by rising population. In Britain, however, as disease continually killed off poorer members of society, their positions in society were taken over by the sons of the wealthy, who were less violent, more literate, and more productive. This process of "downward social mobility" eventually enabled Britain to attain a rate of productivity that allowed it to break out of the Malthusian trap. Upper class qualities spread to lower classes; Society was becoming Middle Class; Economic Man was born. ( ... tālāk ... )

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