Is the wheel the most over rated invention of all time?

>>2813397
>known by basically every people on earth
>biggest fucking innovation was to save the amount of material used
>useless anyways if you don't have access to the right type of animal

>>2813397
Railroads.

While it's true they're better than digging a canal, the difference is pretty small. Everyone talks about how railroads revolutionized transportation when they only marginally better than canals.

To prove my point, look at the work of Robert Vogel and Albert Fishlow.

Tbh swords.

>>2813989
wrong

Smartphones

>>2813989
But you don't have to rely on a steady large flow of water for railroads, try digging a transsibirial or transamerican canal

>>2813397
wheels are pretty great
you wouldn't accomplish shit without wheels

this is a nice series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq41lsw_GLY&list=PL3Qu3GIvx73EgVa8dYcN_e9ps2BDMO9j3&index=1

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>>2814520
Vogel and Fishlow didn't say that railroads weren't better than canals, what they said was that the difference wasn't that large.

And most countries, including America and Russia, already have lots of rivers, so you'd only need connecting canals. Map related.

>>2815878

I will never understand the whole "wheels are only useful if you have animals" meme. Anybody who has used a wheelbarrow, skateboard, etc. can tell you they are useful even without animals.

>>2813397
Most overrated is monotheism. I say that without trying to be edgy, but it stifled philosophical and scientific discourse in every iteration. Not saying paganism is better but it came with a more relaxed social environment that allowed for more radical ideas and relatively secular rule as opposed to al-caliph and il papa

>>2813397
Wheels are useless on rough terrain.

>>2816169
Tip