I agree. If he acted faster, it would have been a lot harder to attack him on it. The media would, but people would have seen what he was doing instead of the cognitive dissonance. He kind of didn't really do all that much, had differing policies, left it up to the states
You know all this good shit, like the internet, computers and I don't know, medicine that doesn't involve leeches and sawing your limbs off when you get a small cut? Yeah, all these developments are thanks to industrialization. A majority of Africa is an agrarian society. They don't have time to do any of this.
In a pre-industrial civilization, most of your time is spent farming and getting food. Then its having your wife trek out into the forest to get firewood and having 45 kids because you need help on the farm and can't hire people. Also you're choking to death on carbon monoxide and are going to die at 40 from lung disease and secondary infections. Also half your kids are going to die from preventable diseases. Also, you underestimate just how much land a pre-industrial society needs to function. The answer is, a fucking lot.
Industrialization is why we have science, medicine, technology and all the good shit. Its because we don't have to spend 95% of our time preparing for the winter and freezing to fucking death. You know what is wealth in pre-industry? Having Horses and Cattle. Returning to pre-industrialization is Tyler Durden shit and anyone who is purposing it should be shot in the face. The sheer amount of human misery this would cause would be incalculable.
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Oh, by the by, if America decided to turn off factory farming and go back into the woods, billions of people would die. Because our agriculture supplies a lot of the world. So you're consigning billions to a miserable death by starvation. The only thing that would kill more humans would be a nuclear war. It ranks worse only because the radiation will pollute everything. But truthfully, I'd rather get nuked than go to a fucking miserable farming existence.