1/ > economically division of labor is great. holy cow I think I'm on the verge of a break through herehttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1191691225096687616 …
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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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