Dull-normal kids in elementary school can handle computers.
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Computer technology eliminates jobs that are easy to learn. It creates careers that are difficult to learn. It makes it possible for people with genius level IQs to become billionaires.
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The Black Death permanently changed the economy in Europe, as there simply weren't enough warm bodies to farm. Hundreds of thousands of arable farmland laid fallow, and as a stopgap measure using that land to graze cattle changed European diets forever, as meat became a staple on the average person's table.
Nobody ever figured out how the Black Death never took hold among ethnic Polish and Hungarian populations, despite their continued trade with other affected nations....they simply were immune to the plague at some genetic level. In theory, this should have led to the rise of two new authentic ruling powers in Europe, but short-sighted nobility chose not to vary from rapidly archaic social norms.
In western Europe, Jewish ghettos were far less affected as a population than other areas, so naturally the general public convinced themselves that the Jews were the cause of the plague. This is one aspect of the Black Plague that has been studied in depth, and the conclusion was fairly obvious to any modern researcher: Jews simply had higher standards of personal hygiene compared to other European demographics.
Nobody ever figured out how the Black Death never took hold among ethnic Polish and Hungarian populations, despite their continued trade with other affected nations....they simply were immune to the plague at some genetic level. In theory, this should have led to the rise of two new authentic ruling powers in Europe, but short-sighted nobility chose not to vary from rapidly archaic social norms.
In western Europe, Jewish ghettos were far less affected as a population than other areas, so naturally the general public convinced themselves that the Jews were the cause of the plague. This is one aspect of the Black Plague that has been studied in depth, and the conclusion was fairly obvious to any modern researcher: Jews simply had higher standards of personal hygiene compared to other European demographics.
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