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But for Tin, wouldn't there have to be some knowledge or understanding of Bronze, or of the applications and uses of Tin. This is kind...
Mar 20, 2024
DG Valdron
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I don't know that Tin would be an initial commodity. But once steady trade happens, yes. Then you'd see significant quantities of...
Mar 20, 2024
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Let's go back to first principles. No one is going to build giant Llama catapults to fling them from the Andes to Meso-America. That...
Mar 19, 2024
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Elites are like that. It's consistent behaviour. Individuals within elites are sometimes forward thinking. But elites are habitually...
Mar 19, 2024
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Ford and his ilk were very much in the early 20th century mold of proto-keynesians and keynesians. Do you see Jeff Bezos creating...
Mar 19, 2024
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Very true. But that's meaningful to the labouring class. It's not meaningful to the aristocratic class. Aristocrats, or elites, just...
Mar 18, 2024
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And yet, despite proximity of Japan and Korea, regular and massive volumes of trade and cultural similarity, several efforts to...
Mar 18, 2024
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I wondered about that. But the water was probably heavily chlorinated, the zombie virus might not have survived.
Mar 17, 2024
DG Valdron
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Just thinking out loud, the problem with open sea travel is that there's nothing out there. There's no Islands, just the coast. Also...
Mar 17, 2024
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Unless of course, even one Zombie or bitten or infected person ends up on the inside with everyone. And we don't really know if bites...
Mar 17, 2024
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Are civilizational collapses associated with high volumes of traffic of luxury and status goods?
Mar 16, 2024
DG Valdron
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The elites didn't introduce chickens. That was a grass roots innovation. Chickens were small, easy to transport, easy to feed and...
Mar 16, 2024
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Elites do not function that way. Elites ask what is good for them. They don't give a crap about the economy. Then the first thing...
Mar 16, 2024
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Look, I'm sorry if I'm shooting you guys down. But I just think we need to work hard to make the case going on real, plausible human...
Mar 16, 2024
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Well, the ruling class already has better pack animals in the form of slaves and subjects. They can carry almost as much weight and you...
Mar 16, 2024
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