Europe is another level though. Walking around you are regularly reminded of what people achieved before the Industrial Revolution.
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Yes you could have all the money in the world and probably still have a hard time finding the people who know how to build that and do it in a beautiful way
absolutely, that's my point, in particular without cheap energy and in a subsistence economy with little surplus. How do you get stone extracted from the quarry and then brought on site and then cut to the millimeter and then elevated and attached in an exact fit? How do you manage mutli generational team and architects to do something like that? These freaking cathedrals are still here 900 years later, that's just crazy!