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It can become highly interdependent, I won't disagree with that. But, there is a real cause and effect happening. If the people in a community stops subsidizi
by lupatus 14y ago
It can become highly interdependent, I won't disagree with that. But, there is a real cause and effect happening.
If the people in a community stops subsidizing infrastructure, what happens to the infrastructure? It crumbles away.
If a community doesn't have subsidized infrastructure does entrepreneurship there die? Nope. Case in point - the show "Flying Wild Alaska" from the Discovery Channel. I used to live in that village. Its only transportation links to the outside world is a private airport and private barge services in the summer. If a local fisherman or craftsman wants to ship his goods to customers outside the village, he doesn't use public, subsidized routes.
- danmaz74 14y agoRoads aren't the only form of subsidized infrastructure. The judiciary system, law enforcement and the army are the basic examples where you can't have a working, healthy system without "subsidies" (ie, non voluntary payments or, if you prefer, taxes). What would happen to the entrepreneurs if the same community you were talking about stopped subsidizing law enforcement? Moreover, that little community only thrives because of commerce with the big, complicated and wealthy external world, with its subsidized roads and so on...
- lupatus 14y agoSo, Unalakleet has had settlements there for (the best guess I could find) 2100-2600 years [1]. It sits at the ocean-side of a natural portage route between the Bering Sea and the Yukon River (Kaltag is at the Yukon river side of the portage). People have lived in Unalakleet long before contact with the "big, complicated and wealthy external world" and its subsidized infrastructure like law enforcement. Before whites came with army and police, the eskimos preferred banishment as the way of enforcing societal norms. [1] http://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/PDFs/11-2/Lutz.pdf http://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/PDF...