Imagine the audacity! Creating shoddy imitations of the riches of Europe's greatest city at that time...
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...but it wasn't creating these copies to sell back to Constantinople (who would buy them?). It first made them for itself...
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...and then for poorer European cities which couldn't afford the originals from Constantinople.
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In doing so, Venitian industry became very diversified, competent, and productive.
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Centuries later, when American ships dragged Japan out of its isolation, Tokyo showed the same audacity, imitating London and New York.
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As with Venice, NY and London had no interest in Tokyo's cheap imitations--but the rest of Japan certainly did.
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This is why I maintain: Boston can, should, and must compete with the best!
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Boston should imitate the work and production of more advanced cities as best they can, and export the results to the smaller cities...
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...of the hinterlands of Greater New England. This is the task before us!
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how would this work? industrial espionage? shitty copies?
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ppl are creative, give them a goal and they'll figure a way out; give them detailed instructions and it'll all fall apart
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