> Do you know the difference between infrastructure and ideas?

Do you?

Can you make an example of "We were leaving some of the best products of our labour in the 1800s and early 1900s"?

Have you ever read Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution?

Are you aware of the Williams Thesis?

I would like to discuss the matter and not read your ad hominem, because it's honestly the least interesting thing in the World and you are not even good at it.

You think those are infrastructure? Those are innovations and technology, i.e. ideas.

Infrastructure is tangible.

Anyway, what you really don't understand is how much the context changed.

Nowadays "leaving it to the kids" means grandparents living something to their grandkids.

In the past it meant a 30 year old man leaving something behind for their 12 years old children.

Some of the infrastructures we are leaving behind was already in place when my mother was being born (in the late 1940s). It is still functioning. I wouldn't call it poor built, it is probably poorly maintained, but it's understandable when the only people willing to maintain it are old folks or immigrants with no other option and the knowledge about the inner workings are lost or degraded.

But my generation and the generation before me are leaving to our descendants the f*ing internet which is an unprecedented marvel if you ask me, comparable to the agricultural revolution, the steam engine, the printing press and the electricity.

> You think those are infrastructure? Those are innovations and technology, i.e. ideas.

You still haven't provided any example...

Last time we left something valuable to future generations was the Romans with their aqueducts.

1800-1900? not so much.

> Infrastructure is tangible.

Is beating around the bush really the best you can do?

Looks like you never heard about (and never took advantage of) the education system...

Some other example of intangible infrastructure: the judicial system and the government.

you're welcome.