> Researchers cannot say specifically how the people of Pingliangtai organized and divided the labor among themselves to build and maintain this type of infrast

> Researchers cannot say specifically how the people of Pingliangtai organized and divided the labor among themselves to build and maintain this type of infrastructure. This kind of communal coordination would also have been necessary to build the earthen walls and moat surrounding the village as well. So how can the authors assume there was no government or central planning? There was clearly some kind of planning! Otherwise, the network of pipes would have been inconsistent. Clearly this society had different values and priorities that many of the societies that we live in! I think the lesson should be that we don't need win-lose economics to handle critical infrastructure. Aside: The Inca had a "command economy" that operated in a very similar manner to communism. They had no poor people. Hunger (as far as we know) didn't exist. But the society fell very quickly when the Spanish arrived.