Scarcity

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>brettk at unicacorp.com wrote:
>
>>  >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.
>
>I'm hoping that complexity could come without authoritarianism and 
>hierarchy. I would not like to live in a "simpler" society, if that 
>meant no antibiotics or fiber optics. So, I guess I'm trying to 
>evade the forced binary, though I really wonder if I can.
>
>Doug

By "complexity" I think you mean the division of labor & the economy 
of scale.  Do you think that the division of labor & the economy of 
scale necessarily lead to "hierarchy" & "authoritarianism" (whose 
respective meanings, btw, are unclear from above)?  If so, why?

Yoshie