And technology likewise often requires a deal of co-operative production -- way more than a hand-to-mouth society can rustle up.
Yeah, that's the thing. You have to have excess labour in order to support a tech sector. And when the world ends, I dunno how much excess labour and food for them you have...
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Date: 2008-07-14 11:46 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's the thing. You have to have excess labour in order to support a tech sector. And when the world ends, I dunno how much excess labour and food for them you have...