18 Jan 2017 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | plutocracy i guess via rape and pillage | 07:32:30 |
Hierophant | hahaha | 07:32:39 |
Hierophant | I dunno dude | 07:32:40 |
Hierophant | that's a good question | 07:32:42 |
Hierophant | let me look it up | 07:32:44 |
Hierophant | google says "agrarian and slave based economy" | 07:33:07 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | similar to feudalism | 07:33:24 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | prob | 07:33:31 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | but grander | 07:33:41 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | what about ancient greece | 07:34:03 |
Hierophant | I dunno | 07:34:07 |
Hierophant | let me look it up | 07:34:08 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | probly same but not as unified | 07:34:14 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | http://www.nature.com/news/2002/021129/full/news021125-8.html | 07:34:50 |
Hierophant | "Greece lacked a consolidated, centralized economy in the modern sense of the word." | 07:34:52 |
Hierophant | sounds like Egypt was extremely unequal | 07:35:35 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | thats a short article | 07:35:43 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | this is a paper on wealth inequality in egypt v | 07:36:33 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0410414.pdf | 07:36:36 |
Hierophant | equations | 07:37:58 |
Hierophant | greeeat | 07:37:59 |
Hierophant | I'm not that interested in inequality in ancient Egypt anyway | 07:38:18 |
Hierophant | but I'm sure it was terrible etc | 07:38:23 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | i think its the paper that article was based on | 07:38:54 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | basically just saying that rich people had all the cash | 07:39:08 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | i was wonderin how their economy worked, like how much was proivately owned and how much was effeced by the kings | 07:39:51 |
Hierophant | mmhm | 07:40:22 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | cus they say capitalism was inventd in like the 1700s | 07:40:25 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | but whats the difference really | 07:40:39 |
MeowWhereTheRiversMeet | besides the kings meddling in everything | 07:40:47 |