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RedSparrows wrote:If the river-delta people develop growth-based economics then they will eventually need to annex the surrounding regions, regardless of how peaceful and/stable things were up to that point (unless they renounce exponential growth at that point, causing a certain amount of pain to their own people and economy).
It would change something if the relative values were reduced.
It's all very well being dismissive of the issue by way of such remarks, but there's a big difference between 'wanting a river delta for the agricultural bounty whilst we will starve in five years' and 'wanting a shiny toy because my toy isn't quite as shiny'.
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Aargh. wrote:Since when was I ignoring human nature? I'm saying that your remark 'people always want what others have' doesn't exist in a vacuum. In an different world that desire could be mitigated/tempered/channelled by the very things it wants: the 'other things'. I'm not saying it's possible, or even necessarily desirable in some senses, but it's still something to think about.
No, there is no difference in anything other than your magical idealised world that completely ignores human nature.
grey_matters wrote:Yeah - the growth point being the key.RedSparrows wrote:If the river-delta people develop growth-based economics then they will eventually need to annex the surrounding regions, regardless of how peaceful and/stable things were up to that point (unless they renounce exponential growth at that point, causing a certain amount of pain to their own people and economy).
It would change something if the relative values were reduced.
It's all very well being dismissive of the issue by way of such remarks, but there's a big difference between 'wanting a river delta for the agricultural bounty whilst we will starve in five years' and 'wanting a shiny toy because my toy isn't quite as shiny'.
RedSparrows wrote:Flesch-kincaid grade = -3.4Aargh. wrote:Since when was I ignoring human nature? I'm saying that your remark 'people always want what others have' doesn't exist in a vacuum. In an different world that desire could be mitigated/tempered/channelled by the very things it wants: the 'other things'. I'm not saying it's possible, or even necessarily desirable in some senses, but it's still something to think about.
No, there is no difference in anything other than your magical idealised world that completely ignores human nature.
It's all very well saying such things, but it blurs the complexity of its own meaning with its glibness.
kalel wrote:I dunno. It's starting to look sane compared to the direction the thread is starting to take.
Quite an odd OP.
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