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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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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6/ possible. But have read about cities in other eras; all sound terrible. Thoughts, frens? https://twitter.com/EmperorCoolidge/status/1191710821962932224 …
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7/ theory is still under development (expect completion around Friday 8pm when I'm truly d̶r̶u̶n̶k̶ suffused with peat-based nootropics). Two answers are (a) yes, we need to fall back to1850s tech level, (b) accelerate to self-replicating backpack fabshttps://twitter.com/shlevy/status/1191711526274646019 …
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8/ this is orthogonal to my points, and dragging in a
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this is not what James C Scott says
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