Complexity and Armageddon, or… the Story of the Hemp Microphone
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The Cost of Complex Societies
There's only 11 types of jobs in the primary, right? But that's not necessarily a reflection of how many people there are. The key thing in the United States in particular is that there are not very many people involved in growing food. It's also, you think about it from the standpoint who gets paid. Right. They get paid the big bucks, right? Because they're mostly just paying each other, right? Right. And so we have these tertiary sector folks doing absolutely key things, many of them, except for bolts and bullshit jobs out there. I wrote this famous book in 1988, Collapse of Complex Societies. We use complexity to solve problems of kind of
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