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[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I'd argue that the technological advancement was from spending a lot on that rather than societal goods, and the general removal of freedoms to trade for efficiency. This usually happens during war, but a society can't maintain that, people get sick of it. If they didn't run out of oil, they would have run out of the will to fight.

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