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zouhair
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Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
Which of the countries you cite is doing good?
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All of them did huge amounts of good along with whatever bad they did. The Romans (to take an uncontroversially ancient example) were brutal philistines, but can you say the
pax romana
was not a net win?
mynameishere
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In terms of relevant effect? All of them. Ask me how well XYZ unknown tribe of ABC unknown regional geographic subsection is doing.
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