> The stroke of the pen would help the economy immensely, but also destroy an extraordinary amount of culture and wealth, much of it intangible. Maslov's pyram

> The stroke of the pen would help the economy immensely, but also destroy an extraordinary amount of culture and wealth, much of it intangible. Maslov's pyramid. Does a starving peasant care about culture and intangible "wealth" if trading that for food is what we're talking about? The Communists rammed through a whole new writing system to replace a ~5k year old one and nobody complained too much, even though it's ugly as heck.