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When one percent began oppressing 99 percent, civilisation was born. That is one of the arguments of Rutger Bregman in his Hopeful History of Humankind. Even today we have a world where one percent oppresses 99%. The one percent consists of some super-rich and certain governments or political systems. “Civilisation has become synonymous with peace and progress, and wilderness with war and decline. In reality, for most of human existence, it was the other way around.” Tha...
