MacroVoices #355 Mark Nelson: Understanding All Things Nuclear
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Societal Complexity Is a Function of the Amount of Affordable Energy Available to the Economy
In developed nations, nobody builds their own home or grows their own food unless they have a personal passion for doing so. Instead people are free to pursue higher education and then move on to careers that never even existed 200 years ago. The single most important lesson I've ever learned is this: Societal complexity is a function of the amount of abundant and affordable energy available to the economy.
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