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I don't think it's a myth. If wealth tends to lead to decadence, the times when we have lots of people sitting around writing about stuff are gonna be at high points where things are starting to stagnate and decline. I'm sure that you can find curmudgeonly people complaining during periods of civilizational upswing, but if history is a series of peaks and valleys, most of the stuff that gets saved and remembered is from those peaks where things are actually stagnating or declining.
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I don't know how the hell you look at Current Year America and not think we're culturally and civilizationally debased compared to any point in the second half of the 20th Century.
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@ArdainianRight probably what you do is declare that morality is fungible, and then identify historical immoralities.
"People didn't lock their car or house doors, society was so high trust, but where was the diversity?"
On wealth leading to decadence, look at all the theories of how people become socialists. Mises's theory was socialists came from the extended family of capitalists, who were accustomed to living off their successful relative, but who contributed nothing to the business, and who felt like they deserved more of a share of this 'natural' income that they don't perceive the successful relative as even working for.
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