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Over a long enough time scale, a different economic system would have pressures towards different goods and services.
Why there would be definitely some similarities. A modern economic system such as capitalism and communism would result in two very invastly different things.
While baseline technology would probably look, if not be the same, what is then used for and developed for would be different.
For example, it's more likely in a communist system that AI would be developed far more rapidly than we saw under capitalism.
While capitalism pushes towards something like ads and monetizing information. Communism would push towards the acceleration and simplification of outmoding the worker entirely.
For capitalism outmoding the worker is just a side effect of saving money. It's not the goal. Under communism, it would be the goal since it would create the best possible circumstances for people to be able to live a equal life given the highest benefit of the communal progression.
Different systems have different goals to argue that the same things would be created in the same order is just bad faith. Even arguing that things would be created exactly. The same is bad faith.
A quick jump through the history books and even a service level understanding of History can prove that. The concept of simultaneous invention shows as much. The printing press is a fantastic example.
Invented hundred years apart in two entirely different parts of the world. One barely used and quickly forgotten because their system of governance, economy and society did not see much of a point to it. While the other is what revolutionized the world.
Different systems invent different things because they have different goals. Even when they do invent, the same thing doesn't mean it'll be used or even valued and thus never improved on.