(Un)Free market capitalism in action

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[Spider]

400 years ago is about the time Shakespeare died.

Perhaps he made up the other thousands of years of history in a play or something.

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Different society from the current one, which emerged just about 400 years ago. The early modern era begins at about 1586. At least that is when the term was first used.

[The Dharma Bum]

The modern capitalistic mode of production that sets our society apart from it's predecessors began in the early modern era with the emergence of the first urbs. That was about 400 years ago, give or take a few decades.

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[eynon81]

I think really modern European society is only around 70 years old because of that thing that happened 70 years ago.

Pre-thing Europeans are way different than Post-thing.

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Indeed. Most of the worlds civilizations are under 100 years old, due to a number of things happening.

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