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I have to disagree here. The carpenter would ultimately had a similar quality of life with empire or without… Life in the west would be very different for sure, but i would not qualify it as worse. Consumerism would be replaced by a far more sustainable lifestyle and we would have replaced our incentives based on GDP long ago, but does not mean less quality of life, just a more just one.
I don’t think imperialism is a good thing, but it is how empire maintains itself. A more sustainable, equitable, socialist world is possible, capitalism is what perpetuates imperialism.
