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Originally Posted by polak
So far the system we have has been the most successful in driving innovation, improving quality of life and mortality across the board (albeit, unevenly). Every other concept of social structure has failed miserably or led to stagnant human development.
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That's prbably true. And 200 years ago, the systems we used were more successful than than the ones 200 years before.
There is always resistance to change though, and it almost always means some of the poeple at the top get toppled.
I for one, much prefer living in a democracy and not an absolute monarchy despite the fact that many of the people resistant to change at the time also argued that it was better than the feudal system that existed before it.
Hopefully in 200 years we'll be able to improve on the ones we use now and people will be able to say that while 20th/21st century profit driven capitalism was the best up until that point, that they much prefer whatver system is evolved to replace it.