We have... increased food production, built cities, established empires and created... trade networks. But… — Yuval Noah Harari
We have... increased food production, built cities, established empires and created... trade networks. But did we decrease... suffering..? ...[M]assive increases in human power did not necessarily improve the well-being of individual Sapiens, and usually caused immense misery to other animals.
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