Nick Szabo  🔑

Principles of biological scalability, especially the principle of the minimum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig%27s_law_of_the_minimum … along with principles of social scalability https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2008/07/hampton-sides-sheds-light-on-mancur.html … https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/money-blockchains-and-social-scalability.html … explain some of the most important patterns of history. /1

Applying the Sprengel/Liebig principle of the minimum to human food production & nutrition, a society can be protein-rich, and thus limited by its carbohydrate & fat intake (i.e. calorie-limited), or it can be rich in carbohydrates or fats, thus limited by its protein intake. /2

When you say “fat” do you mean animal fat or vegetable fat? When meat is consumed in the traditional way (the whole animal is eaten), one obtains protein (tissue building) *and* fat (energy).