Claims / C-E14K9GJ029
Conjecture
We beat famine, plague and war without trying to. Part I: virtually nobody initially set out to combat these threats, because history taught that they were inexorable and a fundamental part of reality, and they were ameliorated instead as a byproduct of increasing specialisation in our economies. In the last hundred years, almost without anyone noticing, these threats were converted from unforeseeable catastrophes into preventable problems. The greatest achievement in human welfare was nobody's project.
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Virtually no one initially set out to specifically combat these threats because human history taught us that they were inexorable \- a fundamental part of our reality. Instead, these risk factors have been effectively ameliorated as a byproduct of increasing specialization in our economies. However, in the last 75 year
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