Yeah. The interconnections between technologies make it hard to understand at the superficial level that people get taught in school, just how much harder it is to export a technological apparatus to, say, make beads, or produce cloth, compared to the ease with which trade goods can travel across the entire planet, from a place where they're seen as pedestrian and worthless to a place where they're amazing and highly valued.
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Date: 2021-08-05 12:37 pm (UTC)