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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Exactly. Discoveries are inevitable. If Einstein hadn't developed his brilliant theories, someone else shortly after would have.
At best you can briefly delay scientific discovery / technological advances. The best way to delay advances is to make everyone poor so they don't have free time and don't have excess resources to spend experimenting.
... and yet people are abandoning their sedans to purchase the largest vehicles they can afford, which happen to be quite large. My sister just bought a brand new $40k Toyota 4Runner. She "needs" it because she just had her first baby.
Expensive is subjective.
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It's funny how people 'need' something that didn't exist on Earth in any meaningful numbers until the 1980s.