Scarcity

brettk at unicacorp.com brettk at unicacorp.com
Tue Apr 10 15:50:21 PDT 2001



>I'll try it in a short, nonrambling sentence or two. Is it possible
>for a simple society to produce complicated technology? Can you make
>a computer chip without large universities, large states, and large
>enterprises?

I'm curious - let's suppose the answer to your question is no. Suppose that along with high tech comes statist and hierarchical societies. And suppose egalitarianism requires a much simpler society, one which cannot produce these types of widgets. Which would you choose to live in?

This might be a false choice, but the historical evidence suggests that it isn't. Anyway, I'm interested in how you'd answer your own question.

Brett



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