Curator of Mastodon.art fediblock :newt: on Nostr: lain i was gonna say that the population back then was smaller -- and it was! -- but ...

lain (nprofile…hmru) i was gonna say that the population back then was smaller -- and it was! -- but only by 60% or so. The earliest records on wikipedia are from 1850s and they list British population at 27 million. Which is 40% of today's. Meaning, Brits now have about 24 times of government spending per capita than back then.