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Small is beautiful. Small things dont blow up and cause huge collateral damage. Restaurants go out of business all the time. 1 collapse doesn't do anything.
by IG_Semmelweiss 6y ago
Small is beautiful.
Small things dont blow up and cause huge collateral damage.
Restaurants go out of business all the time. 1 collapse doesn't do anything.
However, 1 monster entity collapsing (LTCM, Lehman, AIG, any pharma today, or Amazon, Google, or 1 ship blocking a key waterway, etc) and its pandemonium.
City states may have warred more frequently, but they never led to the type of destruction that you saw with WWI, WW2 or the french wars of revolution.
Its wise to have resiliency by decentralizing central power, even if it costs a bit of convenience to the individual.
- michaelscott 6y agoI tend to agree with you. I think on the whole moving to more city states and fewer monoliths probably suits the way humans operate both as individuals and communities more. I also think we're probably at a point now where doing so won't lead to small scale wars city states experienced in the past, or at least far less frequently.