RE: Zakir Naik, Muslim Idiot.
October 16, 2011 at 7:08 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2011 at 7:16 pm by ruhollah.)
(October 16, 2011 at 6:28 pm)IATIA Wrote: And this "more productive period of human history" was when? I bought a calculator for $400 in the late 70s. Today I can buy a computer for less than that (in equivalent dollars, about $40-$50) and the comparative difference is astronomical.
Firstly, the first adopters always have to pay a higher amount. Secondly, there was high inflation around the world during the 70s--so prices were higher than they should be. Thirdly, if the economy was more sound (no paper currency)-- it would cost you an equivalent of probably $2 or less and not $40.
Also speaking of progress... in the 1950s the average wage of someone with only a high-school education was $35/hr in today's USD. Today the average wage of someone with a high school education is $15/hr. Now that is great "progress", is it not?
I'll address these economic issues in another thread later... just note that the most technological achievements (life-changing inventions) the western world achieved (like the invention of the light bulb, refrigerator, airplane, car, washing machine, dryer, vacuum, ...etc.) was all thanks to a sound economy (that was inline with Islam's approach to the economy) and majority of population believed in God. Islam enjoyed a similar experience during its golden age--but when people start to focus on managing the economy at the macro level that is when things fell apart.
Today, the secular world's biggest sector is the service sector where wealth is not being created and instead just being siphoned and redistributed. If people stop giving into glitz/glamor and stop going for superficial jobs and instead focusing on our enviroment and god's creations...we would be expanding human knowledge at a much faster rate and actually contribute to making real life-changing inventions.
