Recently a group of archaeologists and anthropologists published a really interesting, comprehensive study of prehistoric civilizations and their sources in wealth.
It turns out that the most prosperous people and civilizations across ancient history– and I’m talking 10,000+ years ago before any recorded history– were those who harnessed new technologies to become more productive.
Back then it was all about agriculture.
And while it all seems so simple and obvious to us now, the use of large animals like horses and oxen to plow fields was considered game-changing technology for these prehistoric tribes.
The researchers surveyed data across a number of civilizations and found a much higher level of prosperity in places that used animals, versus places where farmers plowed their fields by hand.
The use of animals was a huge multiple of human labor, so farmers could extend their fields far beyond what was ever thought possible… and hence produce a massive surplus of food.
Moreover, they soon discovered that animal manure was an effective fertilizer that only enhanced crop yields.
More volume, more efficiency, higher yields… precisely the results that great technology produces.
Quite simply, the people and civilizations which embraced and used the technology prospered. Those who didn’t got left behind.
We’ve seen this over and over again throughout history. The printing press. The advent of machinery in the Industrial Revolution. The emergence of the microchip. The Internet.
Now it’s the technology behind cryptofinance which absolutely has revolutionary power to disrupt the existing financial system.
Think about it– every single financial function that banks currently monopolize, from deposits to lending to money transfers and currency exchange, can already be done better, faster, and cheaper outside of the banking system.
Banks take days to transfer funds. Blockchain transactions take an hour, maybe minutes… sometimes seconds.
Banks charge exorbitant fees to change from one currency into another, as if they have to put a ton of work into finding a buyer for their customers’ euros and US dollars. Give me a break.
Online platforms can do it at practically no cost.
Source/More: Think people got rich from Bitcoin? We haven’t seen anything yet. | Sovereign Man
