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>piggybacking on a technological society that did make those investments. Indeed, every technological advancement has piggy backed on those before it.

• gaius 10y ago
  Not the same thing - this tribe can't exist without infrastructure it cannot create or maintain itself. Your caring sharing tribe ain't going to be making a chip foundry or a means of powering it or extracting raw materials for it anytime soon. That needs capital.
  • alanwatts 10y ago
    What's not the same thing? Plenty of such tribes exist and have existed without centralized industrial infrastructure.
    • gaius 10y ago
      The parent suggests it as an alternative to what we have now. That's not viable unless we want to regress to pre-agrarian levels.