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Then mourn the social democratic consensus that built that prosperity, rather than the symbol of empire and privilege that it replaced?

>>bigfud+(OP)
That's not what built it. Automation and technology and burning fuel did.

>>robert+7q1
It's not an either/or proposition. The early industrial revolution had automation and technology and burning fuel too.

>>Syzygi+kv1
Indeed. That was the start of the big push of thousands of big and small inventions and commercial progressions that has gradually allowed more and more of the whole world to achieve heights no one could've dreamed of even 100 years ago.

>>robert+7q1
No. Statistically, the reason the gp was celebrating their post war prosperity was because the proceeds or automation and burning fossil fuels were much more equitably shared in that period than any other in history.