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  • My favourite trade fact is that when the Norse settled Newfoundland, it was theoretically possible to send an item from Patagonia to Melbourne via American and European trade routes, the silk road onto the treppang fishers and then into Australian aboriginal trade routes. But I’m just realising it could probably have gone the other way via Easter Island as well














  • Okay the argument is that the lack of social safety nets and childcare causes a decline in birth rates. Right?

    Your argument is that the transition from socialism to capitalism is directly linked to a drop in birth rates? I assume in this particular case you mean the loss of free childcare and social safety nets leads women to avoid having children?

    So, in capitalist countries where there is subsidised/ free childcare and more developed safety nets should correspond to an increase in birth rates?

    And to expand on that, socialist countries such as China and Cuba should show an increase in birth rates. An i getting this right or am I missing your point





  • Maybe if the whole world became equally stratified, at this point is makes far more sense to import workers at the start of their working lives who have already been taught to read and write. Simply provide high enough living standards to compensate for the loss of friends and family and you can get a healthy individual where the capital has already been spent and put them to work