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Things can be forgotten. Nothing is guaranteed - missing a key insight can have you waste 1,000 years!
- average life expectancy in Rome around 100 A.D was 72 years! (civilization, sanitation, aqueducts, roads). Then Dark Age happens and it plunges down to 30 years. It only recovers to 70+ years in mid 1900s in the U.S.
- The way Romans created concrete was [lost up until 2017](https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22231)! It is stronger than the concrete used today
- The Chinese invented the printing press 2,000 years ago. Gutenberg got it just in 1453.
- 100 A.D. the Trajan knew the world was round, then 1,400 years later Europe pre-Columbus thinks it’s flat
There is always the possibility of significant civilizational regression if we ignore learnings we’ve accumulated over time.
We believe we are living in such an era with relation to Sound Money.
Humanity has forgotten what it’s like to have money that doesn’t lose value, and deludes itself into thinking such a world cannot work.
-- an excerpt from the Saylor Series Episode 2 - the Rise of Man through the Dark and Steel Ages, its 2-minute version can be found here https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/saylor-series-episode-2-the-rise-of-man-through-the-dark-and-steel-ages-robert-breedlove
- average life expectancy in Rome around 100 A.D was 72 years! (civilization, sanitation, aqueducts, roads). Then Dark Age happens and it plunges down to 30 years. It only recovers to 70+ years in mid 1900s in the U.S.
- The way Romans created concrete was [lost up until 2017](https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22231)! It is stronger than the concrete used today
- The Chinese invented the printing press 2,000 years ago. Gutenberg got it just in 1453.
- 100 A.D. the Trajan knew the world was round, then 1,400 years later Europe pre-Columbus thinks it’s flat
There is always the possibility of significant civilizational regression if we ignore learnings we’ve accumulated over time.
We believe we are living in such an era with relation to Sound Money.
Humanity has forgotten what it’s like to have money that doesn’t lose value, and deludes itself into thinking such a world cannot work.
-- an excerpt from the Saylor Series Episode 2 - the Rise of Man through the Dark and Steel Ages, its 2-minute version can be found here https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/saylor-series-episode-2-the-rise-of-man-through-the-dark-and-steel-ages-robert-breedlove