2/ * cities create division of labor * division of labor is great, BUT * specialization is for insects * bugmen are insects * cities are for states to make production transparent * cities are population shredders * as they were in Bronze Age (Against the Grain, James C Scott)
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3/ * cities / division of labor is not good in and of itself, but are good for the elites (you need to put 5 million people in one place if you want a 3 star Michellin restaurant ...AND have their secret unlisted number for reservations)
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4/ so basically Robert Heinlein / James C Scott / BAP synthesis: * a human being should be able to build a house / butcher a pig / start a fire * ...because doing so allows him to escape the bugman cities where he is countable and taxable by the elites
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5/ cities are for gay men who brunch, barren women who collect handbags, snivelling policy "wonks" and other castrati retainers bronze age / Heinleinian heroes must forgo specialization and thus economic peak development (no homo economicus here) in order to escape into Zomia
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Heinlein wasn't so sure. "Specialization is for insects."
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Ah, lol, you got to it already in the thread. Carry on, then.
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