Civilizations and space 10 (European civilization's taste )

Some people think that European civilization is characterized by collecting, but European civilization was pushed out into the Atlantic Ocean by Islamic civilization pushed out by the Mongol Empire. In response to Spain's dispersal of the wealth gained in the New World within Europe as military expenses, European countries that pursued mercantilistic policies accumulated capital in order to strengthen their military power. It led to the industrial revolution. the scale and duration of the war may have been a precursor to the Industrial Revolution. And it may be that the taste for capital accumulation has not changed since then.

 

Capital accumulation led to excess production capacity, which led to world wars, but in the process leading up to it, attention was also focused on consumption (Keynesian), but the question of whether consumption was really necessary remained, and the economic scale of developed countries alone remained. Demand will eventually become saturated, and even if technological innovation enables new lifestyles and creates new demand, it will not be as strong as it used to be, and the unproductivity of the public sector will become a problem (although it may not be so in Nordic countries). Demand has become a matter of quantity rather than quality, with urbanization and rising living standards in developing countries becoming a large core part of demand as quantity, but also for developed countries. Export industries and overseas expansion have become a lifeline for economic growth. In this way, cosmopolitan civilization was connected to globalization through capital accumulation, but it may be fair to say that this is creating friction with the existing system of the state.

But where did European civilization's taste for capital accumulation and military power come from? Was it not from want? At this point, let us conclude our spatial consideration of civilization.

 

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