>>232641921. Most people engaged in farming. Aristocrats, the minority, only engaged in this invention/science stuff.
2. Of aristocrats, only a select few even cared to do science stuff. Most were too busy fucking, doing weird shit, inventing new fads, socializing, etc. Doing richfag shit.
This meant a 1% of a 1% were doing this work. Why record Chopin when he's got his notes written down and you can pay a team of musicians to play it live for you? It's just not a need to record stuff.
Normies at the time are farming - that shit is lots of work. So when not farming - they are fucking and partying. No normie is rich enough to have the material or time to do research into this.
It's only post industrialization that people's hand's free up to do this stuff. This allows inventors to come to being from the normie stock, not just aristocrats. That is how you get a Telsa, an Edison, a Bell, etc. These people were all normies - no aristocrats.
>>23264207War easily crushes innovation, which then needs to be rediscovered later. Humans have probably had and lost tech over and over in history. Imagine the west dying out and the Amish inheriting the nation. All our fancy electronics tech gone, in a flash. Reverted to farming tier tech. Then the Amish descendants have to reinvent it all.
