History general Anonymous 325492[Reply]
Maybe I'm being an idiot again but I can't find any history-related threads or generals. So I'm gonna make one and I'll start with a question I've been thinking about lately.
What was social mobility like in European and maybe some other countries?
I didn't research it quite thoroughly yet, but in Russian Empire there was something called Table of Ranks. If a commoner spent enough time at the 14th rank and higher they could gain something called "personal nobility". This does not get passed down to your descendants. 8th rank and higher could grant you "hereditary nobility".
3 posts omitted. Click reply to view.Anonymous 325617
>>325495with the way everything is forced onto a paywalled cloud and tech becomes more brittle (SSDs are unable to keep data for years if unpowered), it's unlikely
Anonymous 325618
>>325617I mean, corporations still actively resell ad data, I assume they aren't going to just discard it and it'll be there for years to come. Same with websites that just keep user data forever. Though the likelihood they'll survive long enough to be willing to volunteer that data just for study, I'm not sure about it.
Maybe personal electronics won't be an option, or maybe in the future they'll come up with ways to restore data. Digital archeology or something. But I'm only guessing here though.
Anonymous 325621
Also it's possible that we're invent more persistent storage types. They may not become mainstream but I know 100% data hoarders will be in on it
Anonymous 325640
>What was social mobility like in European and maybe some other countries?
Low, but i guess that was usual in most societies until the late 19th century. Some countries that are very young, like the USA, might be slightly different since people had a better chance to rise during the 19th century (if they were white, and by white i mean english and german).
During most of the earlier times, being granted a noble rank was something that made you nobility by name, but didnt really come with any benefits and wasnt hereditary, as you described. Until very late in the middle ages, there wasnt even something like a capitalist class that wasnt noble, but wealthy.
Anonymous 325644
>among them are Poisson, Laplace and Euler
this sounds strange, because the Laplace transform is a generalization of the Fourier transform into the s plane
