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Not only an economic case, but also being able to use your tech advantage without being bullied by an established competitor. "Oh you're using this weird contra
by ovi256 14y ago
Not only an economic case, but also being able to use your tech advantage without being bullied by an established competitor. "Oh you're using this weird contraption to outsmart me ? Cute, I'll use daggers in the hands of assassins, whatever bailiffs use to enforce trumped up court orders, or something of the kind." In other words, you need the protection of the law as an upstart.
It can be argued that this was missing in the Roman world, while the economic case existed and even the tech was known.
- rmc 14y agoAnd you think at the start of the Industrial Revolution there was a perfect rule of law in UK & France? There were lots of thugs back then too.
- jacques_chester 14y ago> In other words, you need the protection of the law as an upstart. Rome in the mid to late Republic and early Empire had very sophisticated and stable laws and court systems, including a body of commercial law that was not seen again until thousands of years later.