Until recently in human history 100% of humans were illiterate.

“Recently” seems to mean something different in your comment than the one you replied to. As in at least an order of magnitude difference, maybe two.

Terrible analogy.

btw analogy is not a good way to win arguments.

Winning arguments with analogies is like painting still life with a broad brush

Lmao welcome to HN, baby! Every reply chain here:

1. Some point.

2. Counterpoint.

3. Countercounterpoint.

4-10. Belabored analogies that people argue about.

11-15. Weird blood-and-soil stuff.

The odds of me using a Google IDE are the same as me logging into my Google+ account to connect with friends.

This isn't true. Also the book "Sapiens" goes a bit into how cruel ancient humans in the Americas would be to some of the weaker offspring. So it's not 'new' in the sense of last few thousand years either. I think there's been a lot of personalities and cultures over the last 300k years that approach this differently.